Slightly

//ˈslaɪtli//

Synonyms for "slightly" (87 found)

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Closest matches (18)

little marginally somewhat a bit a little any amount barely

Adverb(11 words)

a little marginally somewhat a bit a little bit a mite a smidgen a smidgeon a tad a touch a trifle

Strong matches (26)

Related words (43)

Adverb(7 words)

just mildly modestly nearly not much only just scarcely

just a bit kind of lightly meagerly minimally minutely moderately more or less negligibly not hardly only just poorly pretty punily quite rather scantily scarcely small smally

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some amount some extent sort of sparely sparingly tant soit peu to a degree to some extent trifle triflingly very weakly

Adverb(4 words)

more or less slenderly slimly somewhat

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

2 entries

partially successfully

More specific

1 entries

only

Antonyms

1 entries

quite

Synonyms

4 entries

little marginally more or less somewhat

Related terms

5 entries

degree extent miserably modicum wretchedly

derived

1 entries

slightly-enriched uranium

derived from

1 entries

slight

has context

1 entries

degree

related to

2 entries

delicately slenderly

Translations

69 translations across 32 languages.

Ancient Greek

2 entries

ἦκα adv (to a small extent or degree)
ὀλίγον adv (to a small extent or degree)

Arabic

1 entries

قَلِيلًا adv (to a small extent or degree)

Bulgarian

1 entries

едва adv (to a small extent or degree)

Catalan

1 entries

lleugerament adv (to a small extent or degree)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

略微 adv (to a small extent or degree)
瘦 adv (slenderly)
稍微 adv (to a small extent or degree)

Dutch

2 entries

enigszins adv (to a small extent or degree)
lichtelijk adv (to a small extent or degree)

Esperanto

3 entries

ete adv (to a small extent or degree)
etete adv (to a small extent or degree)
iomete adv (to a small extent or degree)

Finnish

2 entries

hennosti adv (slenderly)
hieman adv (to a small extent or degree)

French

3 entries

délicatement adv (slenderly)
finement adv (slenderly)
légèrement adv (to a small extent or degree)

Galician

2 entries

levemente adv (to a small extent or degree)
lixeiramente adv (to a small extent or degree)

German

2 entries

ein wenig adv (to a small extent or degree)
leicht adv (to a small extent or degree)

Hungarian

4 entries

egy kicsit adv (to a small extent or degree)
egy kicsivel adv (to a small extent or degree)
enyhén adv (to a small extent or degree)
kicsit adv (to a small extent or degree)

Ido

1 entries

poke adv (to a small extent or degree)

Italian

1 entries

leggermente adv (to a small extent or degree)

Japanese

1 entries

少し adv (to a small extent or degree)

Korean

2 entries

약간 adv (to a small extent or degree)
조금 adv (to a small extent or degree)

Macedonian

2 entries

малку adv (to a small extent or degree)
малкуцка adv (to a small extent or degree)

Māori

1 entries

tata adv (to a small extent or degree)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

lett adv (to a small extent or degree)
lettere adv (to a small extent or degree)
litt adv (to a small extent or degree)
svakt adv (to a small extent or degree)

Polish

2 entries

nieco adv (to a small extent or degree)
trochę adv (to a small extent or degree)

Portuguese

3 entries

finamente adv (slenderly)
ligeiramente adv (to a small extent or degree)
um pouco adv (to a small extent or degree)

Romanian

2 entries

puțin adv (to a small extent or degree)
ușor adv (to a small extent or degree)

Russian

2 entries

немно́го adv (to a small extent or degree)
слегка́ adv (to a small extent or degree)

Sanskrit

1 entries

ईषत् adv (to a small extent or degree)

Spanish

2 entries

levemente adv (to a small extent or degree)
ligeramente adv (to a small extent or degree)

Swedish

2 entries

aningen adv (to a small extent or degree)
något adv (to a small extent or degree)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

liklik adv (to a small extent or degree)

Tunisian Arabic

1 entries

دوبلاش adv (to a small extent or degree)

Turkish

4 entries

azıcık adv (slenderly)
biraz adv (to a small extent or degree)
hafif adv (to a small extent or degree)
hafifçe adv (to a small extent or degree)

Ukrainian

3 entries

зле́гка adv (to a small extent or degree)
ледь adv (to a small extent or degree)
тро́хи adv (to a small extent or degree)

Vietnamese

1 entries

hơi adv (to a small extent or degree)

Zhuang

1 entries

loq adv (to a small extent or degree)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The ball curved slightly.

Source: tatoeba (19554)

Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.

Source: tatoeba (36687)

The festive mood was slightly spoiled by terrorist bombs.

Source: tatoeba (39132)

But his name is slightly familiar to me.

Source: tatoeba (39284)

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