Young girls' desire for slim figures is strong.
Source: tatoeba (33418)
Slim
//slɪm//
Synonyms for "slim" (205 found)
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Closest matches (41)
Strong matches (62)
Related words (102)
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Adjective(20 words)
Verb(4 words)
Noun(5 words)
Related word relations
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2 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
7 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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6 entriesTranslations
115 translations across 50 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥαδινός adj (slender)
Arabic
3 entries- أَهْيَف adj (slender)
- نَحِيف adj (slender)
- نَحِيل adj (slender)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- incə adj (slender)
Bashkir
1 entries- ябыҡ adj (slender)
Belarusian
3 entries- стро́йны adj (slender)
- стро́мкі adj (slender)
- худы́ adj (slender)
Bulgarian
2 entries- стро́ен adj (slender)
- тъ́нък adj (slender)
Catalan
1 entries- prim adj (slender)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᎴᏐᏓ adj (slender)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 纖細 /纤细 adj (slender)
- 苗條 /苗条 adj (slender)
Czech
1 entries- štíhlý adj (slender)
Danish
2 entries- slank adj (slender)
- tynd adj (slender)
Dutch
4 entries- dun adj (slender)
- slank adj (slender)
- aan de lijn doen verb (lose weight)
- afslanken verb (lose weight)
Esperanto
1 entries- svelta adj (slender)
Finnish
4 entries- hoikka adj (slender)
- laiha adj (slender)
- laihduttaa verb (lose weight)
- laihtua verb (lose weight)
French
4 entries- mince adj (slender)
- svelte adj (slender)
- maigrir verb (lose weight)
- mincir verb (lose weight)
German
4 entries- dünn adj (slender)
- schlank adj (slender)
- schmal adj (slender)
- abnehmen verb (lose weight)
Greek
4 entries- βράδινος adj (slender)
- λεπτός adj (slender)
- ραδινός adj (slender)
- αδυνατίζω verb (lose weight)
Hindi
1 entries- पतला adj (slender)
Hungarian
2 entries- karcsú adj (slender)
- vékony adj (slender)
Ido
2 entries- dina adj (slender)
- dineskar verb (lose weight)
Indonesian
2 entries- langsing adj (slender)
- ramping adj (slender)
Irish
3 entries- caol adj (slender)
- seang adj (slender)
- tanaí adj (slender)
Italian
4 entries- affusolato adj (slender)
- magro adj (slender)
- snello adj (slender)
- dimagrire verb (lose weight)
Japanese
3 entries- ほっそりした adj (slender)
- スリムな adj (slender)
- 細い adj (slender)
Korean
1 entries- 날씬하다 adj (slender)
Latin
1 entries- gracilis adj (slender)
Latvian
3 entries- slaids adj (slender)
- smuidrs adj (slender)
- tievs adj (slender)
Ligurian
1 entries- inmagrî verb (lose weight)
Macedonian
4 entries- виток adj (slender)
- слаб adj (slender)
- тенок adj (slender)
- слабее verb (lose weight)
Neapolitan
1 entries- magro adj (slender)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- slank adj (slender)
- tynn adj (slender)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- ضعیف adj (slender)
- نازك adj (slender)
- قورومق verb (lose weight)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- denn adj (slender)
- schlank adj (slender)
Polish
2 entries- smukły adj (slender)
- szczupły adj (slender)
Portuguese
4 entries- delgado adj (slender)
- esbelto adj (slender)
- esguio adj (slender)
- magro adj (slender)
Romanian
2 entries- subțire adj (slender)
- zvelt adj (slender)
Russian
3 entries- стро́йный adj (slender)
- худо́й adj (slender)
- похудеть verb (lose weight)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- caol adj (slender)
- seang adj (slender)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mȑšav adj (slender)
- vȉtak adj (slender)
- ви̏так adj (slender)
- мр̏шав adj (slender)
Slovak
1 entries- štíhly adj (slender)
Slovene
1 entries- vitek adj (slender)
Spanish
4 entries- delgado adj (slender)
- flaco adj (slender)
- adelgazarse verb (lose weight)
- enflacar verb (lose weight)
Swedish
2 entries- slank adj (slender)
- tunn adj (slender)
Telugu
1 entries- సన్నబడు verb (lose weight)
Ukrainian
3 entries- струнки́й adj (slender)
- стрімки́й adj (slender)
- худи́й adj (slender)
Urdu
1 entries- پتلا adj (slender)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mảnh khảnh adj (slender)
Volapük
1 entries- lunedik adj (slender)
Welsh
1 entries- main adj (slender)
Zazaki
2 entries- bari (diq) adj (slender)
- barı (diq) adj (slender)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
There's little chance of keeping slim, unless you stick to a diet.
Source: tatoeba (41234)
A man called Slim was killed in the accident.
Source: tatoeba (51396)
Chances of promotion are slim in this firm.
Source: tatoeba (60006)
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