1. slender - Adjective
3. slender - Adjective Satellite
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. Cormac McCarthy
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. Flora Thompson
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. Francis Quarles
He that lives on hope has but a slender diet. Danish Proverb
Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides. Irish Proverb
Luck has a slender anchorage. English Proverb