Slighter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLIGHTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• insult (someone) by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention
• raze or destroy (a fortification)
NOUN:
• one who slights
• an insult caused by a failure to show someone proper respect or attention
• One who slights.
ADJECTIVE:
• small in degree; inconsiderable
• (especially of a creative work) not profound or substantial; rather trivial or superficial
• (of a person or their build) not sturdy; thin or slender
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• small in size or amount
• one that slights

Words related to SLIGHTER

slight10 slighters13 slightest13

Words that contain SLIGHTER

slighters13

How to use SLIGHTER in a sentence

• She was very much like Agony herself, with intensely black hair, snow white forehead and richly red lips, though a little slighter in build and somewhat taller.
• The latter was made in a slighter mould, with charming, delicate features, set off by a mass of pale-brown hair.
• People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world.
• I never saw, or read, of any country where religion had so strong a hold upon the women, or a slighter hold upon the men.
• But as it was easy for me to see, that he spoke the slighter of the widow, in order to have a pretence to lodge here himself, I asked him his intention in that respect.
• His companion in the berth was a younger man, smaller, slighter, but of much the same stamp.
• But after a short interval, a violent crash on the back door, which was of much slighter timber, warned me that I must still be prepared to fight against heavy odds.
• Not to divine the desire of a wife, to snore while she lies awake, to be in Siberia when she is in the tropics, these are the slighter disadvantages of twin beds.
• She thought this attack was slighter than in former seasons.
• The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias.
• In many of the slighter descriptive passages, we recognize the poet by those minute touches, which a mind susceptible of poetic feeling is alone capable of bringing out.
• The proof is very slight, even slighter than in the Phaedo and Republic.
• The majority of his fellows stared from him to the slighter Terran as if unable to believe the evidence of their eyes.
• One was a tall, muscular fellow and the other shorter and slighter built, both having the appearance of men that were not to be trifled with.
• It is to be noted that humor is slighter and more delicate than any other form of wit, and that it is used by serious and accomplished writers.
• There he sat, a small, light-complexioned man, of slighter make than those around him, holding in his hand a scroll.
• This warm aromatic odour we always experienced in a slighter degree on first landing in North-western Australia.
• The effect of respiration is most powerful, for the slighter and more imperceptible the phenomena are, the more effect they have upon the auditors.
• They will gradually do it on slighter and slighter occasions, until at last the rule will be disregarded entirely.
• His actual military experience was considerably slighter than what, in after years, he liked to give his friends to understand it had been.
• For the rest, these years seemed to have made the slight form slighter and more wiry, and the face keener, more sallow, and more marked.
• It was necessary to select for the part an actor of a slighter and taller form.
• Then the shock continued for sixty seconds longer, being slighter in degree in this minute than in any part of the preceding minute and a half.
• He was already tormenting himself, and her too in a slighter degree, by apprehensions and imaginations of what might befall her during his approaching absence at sea.
• If the end be attained, the slighter and more unpromising the means the better.
• Dinner was noiselessly and perfectly served by the butler who had first appeared, and a slighter and smaller edition of himself who brought him the dishes.
• He was passing on into a life making larger demands upon, him, a life in which their companionship must naturally become a slighter thing.
• The sight of a reason, the same sight slighter, the sight of a simpler negative answer, the same sore sounder, the intention to wishing, the same splendor, the same furniture.

Similar words containing SLIGHT without suffix er

slight10 slights11 gaslight13 mislight14 slighted13 slightly15 gaslights14 mislights15 slighters13 slightest13 slighting14 slightish16 crosslight16 mislighted17 slightness14 gaslighted16 crosslights17 mislighting18 slightingly19 gaslighting17 slightnesses16

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