Thesaurus / slightness
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synonyms for slightness
- absence
- dearth
- inadequacy
- loss
- paucity
- poverty
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- abridgement
- curtailment
- decrease
- default
- defect
- deficit
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- distress
- exigency
- exiguity
- inferiority
- insufficiency
- meagerness
- miss
- necessity
- privation
- retrenchment
- scantiness
- shortness
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- stint
- want
- insufficience
- dearth
- insufficiency
- smallness
- absence
- deficiency
- famine
- fewness
- meagerness
- paltriness
- poverty
- rarity
- scantiness
- scarceness
- shortage
- slenderness
- sparseness
- sparsity
- insufficience
- narrowness
- brevity
- diminutiveness
- minuteness
- petiteness
- scantiness
- shortness
- tininess
- atomity
- dinkiness
- infinitesimalness
- smallishness
- small size
antonyms for slightness
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How to use slightness in a sentence
The apparent slightness of these English changes reveals their deliberate subtlety.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYBut the slightness of structure which allowed voices to be heard within the lodge also allowed them to be heard without.
TREVLYN HOLDMRS. HENRY WOODThe death of his sweetheart forces one man to reflect anew on the slightness of life's pleasures and the depth of life's griefs.
A MERE ACCIDENTGEORGE MOOREBut chiefly he slept, dreaming little because of his loss of blood and the slightness of his food.
TALES OF SPACE AND TIMEHERBERT GEORGE WELLSHeight and length of limb give distinction; slightness gives grace; women are squat!
OSCAR WILDE, VOLUME 2 (OF 2)FRANK HARRISThey talked now of slightest things, the slightness proving how far intimacy had travelled, comparing childish memories.
PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICKHis square shoulders, commanding height, and military erectness were thus emphasized, as was her own feminine slightness.
THE LAST SHOTFREDERICK PALMERThis little sketch, in spite of its extreme slightness, really deserves to become classical.
VIEWS AND REVIEWSHENRY JAMESThe clothes had been carefully padded to conceal the extreme slightness of her figure.
A SEARCH FOR A SECRET (VOL 3 OF 3)G. A. HENTYIf it still wanted massiveness, his countenance had relinquished its former slightness and look of almost girlish fragility.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. II (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESONWORDS RELATED TO SLIGHTNESS
- abridgement
- absence
- curtailment
- dearth
- decrease
- default
- defect
- deficit
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- distress
- exigency
- exiguity
- inadequacy
- inferiority
- insufficience
- insufficiency
- loss
- meagerness
- miss
- necessity
- paucity
- poverty
- privation
- reduction
- retrenchment
- scantiness
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- shortness
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- slightness
- stint
- want
- abridgement
- absence
- curtailment
- dearth
- decrease
- default
- defect
- deficit
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- distress
- exigency
- exiguity
- inadequacy
- inferiority
- insufficience
- insufficiency
- loss
- meagerness
- miss
- necessity
- paucity
- poverty
- privation
- reduction
- retrenchment
- scantiness
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- shortness
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- slightness
- stint
- want
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.