n. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

v. have no respect for

adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

adj. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

n. an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem

n. the act of scandalizing

n. a mistake resulting from inattention

v. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"

v. attack as false or wrong

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

v. reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"

v. leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

v. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

v. renounce a legal claim or title to

v. throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

v. declare or judge unfit; "The building was condemned by the inspector"

v. be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"

v. express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"

v. bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

v. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"

v. watch over; "I am overlooking her work"

adj. concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

adj. too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"

adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

adj. low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

adj. very narrow; "a thin line across the page"

adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

adj. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"

adj. slender and graceful

adj. too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"

adj. having a slender physique

adj. slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"

adj. appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"

adj. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"

adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

adj. lacking intellectual depth: "glib generalizations"; "shallow people"

adj. (British informal) summarized or abridged; "a potted version of a novel"

adj. involving a surface only; "her beauty is only skin-deep"; "superficial bruising"; "a surface wound"

adj. one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left"

adj. of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many: "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident"

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adj. lacking strength or vigor

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

adj. tall and thin

adj. long and lean

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

adj. resembling a reed in being upright and slender

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

adj. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. having a small waist

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

adj. having long slender legs

adj. lean and sinewy

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

adj. tall and thin

adj. long and lean

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

adj. resembling a reed in being upright and slender

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

adj. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. having a small waist

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

adj. having long slender legs

adj. lean and sinewy

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

adj. of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"

adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"

adj. having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"