slighter

Speech parts

1. slighter - Noun

2. slighter - Adjective

Meaning

One who slights.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

small less little low lower minor secondary thin remote minute lesser slight tiny modest inferior
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Antonyms

arch cardinal archer best better longer
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Examples

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind. A. E. Housman

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. Charles Dickens

However, reading this post was very encouraging to me – I think I will see my relationship with my daughter with a slighter different nuance from now on. Source: Internet

Meet the picture-perfect Bird family: pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and towheaded twins Rory and Rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Source: Internet

The Loeb Classical Library translation (by F.C. Conybeare) mentions (III,7) that "In most respects the tusks resemble the largest swine's, but they are slighter in build and twisted, and have a point as unabraded as sharks' teeth." Source: Internet

Omoo is "a slighter but more professional book," according to Milder. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

slight wind slighted slighten slightest bit slightest bit of slightest chance