Slightness
111lightness — I n 1. brightness, illumination, luminescence, luminosity, radiation; luminousness, brilliance, radiance, lambency, luster, shine, effulgence, irradiation, glow, florescence, incandescence, phosphorescence; blare, glare. 2. paleness, whitishness …
112meagerness — n 1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness,… …
113narrowness — n 1. closeness, nearness, tightness, tight squeeze, confinement; crowdedness, incommo diousness, Obs. incapaciousness; straitness, restriction, restrictedness, attenuation, reduction, curtailment, constriction, limitation, circumscription;… …
114paltriness — n 1. pettiness, triviality, trivialism, Brit. pottiness, inconsiderableness, unappreciableness, inconsequentiality, insignificance, unimportance, irrelevance, irrelevancy, nonessentiality; littleness, smallness, minuteness, slightness,… …
115poverty — n 1. indigence, impoverishment, penury, impecuniousness, neediness, necessitousness; privation, destitution, pennilessness, hand to mouth existence; beggary, pauperism, mendicity; distress, difficulties, straits, narrow straits, straitened or… …
116subtlety — n 1. thinness, slenderness, slightness, at tentuation; sheerness, transparency, silkiness; lightness, airiness, etherealness, buoyancy, unsubstantially. 2. delicacy, fineness, nicety, intricacy, elegance, ex quisiteness; rareness, refinement,… …
117thinness — n 1. leanness, spareness, attenuation, skinniness; narrowness, slenderness, slimness, gracili ty, gracileness, slightness; gauntness, lankness, lankiness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, scrubbiness, puniness, runtiness, smallness. 2.… …
118shadowy — shad•ow•y [[t]ˈʃæd oʊ i[/t]] adj. ow•i•er, ow•i•est 1) resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc 2) unsubstantial or illusory 3) abounding in shade or shadows • Etymology: 1325–75 shad′ow•i•ness, n …
119shadowy — /ˈʃædoʊi/ (say shadohee) adjective 1. resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc.: shadowy outlines. 2. unsubstantial, unreal, or illusory. 3. having a lot of shadow; shady: a shadowy path. 4. enveloped in shadow. 5. casting a shadow …
120slight — /slaɪt / (say sluyt) adjective 1. small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight smell. 2. of little weight, or importance; trifling. 3. slender; slim. 4. frail; flimsy. 5. lacking in solid or substantial qualities. 6. (of sea… …
