slightly

3 definitions found

slightly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Slightly \Slight"ly\, adv.
     1. In a slight manner.
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     2. Slightingly; negligently. [Obs.] --Shak.
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slightly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  slightly
      adv 1: to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat
             self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one
             slice of cake was slightly larger than the other" [syn:
             slightly, somewhat, more or less]
      2: in a slim or slender manner; "a slenderly built woman";
         "slightly built" [syn: slenderly, slimly, slightly]

slightly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "slightly":
     a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little,
     exiguously, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly,
     imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell, in a way, in miniature,
     in some measure, in the small, inappreciably, inconsequentially,
     insignificantly, just a bit, kind of, lightly, little, marginally,
     meagerly, minimally, minutely, negligibly, not hardly, only just,
     poorly, pretty, punily, quite, rather, scantily, scarcely, small,
     smally, somewhat, sort of, sparely, sparingly, tant soit peu,
     to a degree, to some extent, triflingly, very, weakly