slim

/slɪm/

/slɪm/

Other forms: slimmer; slimmed; slimming; slimmest; slims

Anything slim is thin or narrow. So, your sister may be considered slim, and you could also have "a slim chance" of winning the lottery.

Slim people are slender, and slim things are usually delicate, like a slim watch band. You can also use slim to describe a margin or a chance: "There was only a slim likelihood that the home team would win this game." Back in the early 1800s, to slim meant "to do one's work carelessly," and in the seventeenth century, the adjective was also used to mean "sly or crafty."

Definitions of slim

1. adjective

   being of delicate or slender build
   “a slim girl with straight blonde hair”

   synonyms: slender, slight, svelte

   lean, thin

   lacking excess flesh
2. adjective

   small in quantity
   “a slim chance of winning”

   synonyms: slender

   little, small

   limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
3. verb

   take off weight
   synonyms: lose weight, melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim down, thin

   types:

   sweat off

   lose weight by sweating

   type of:

   change state, turn

   undergo a transformation or a change of position or action