Crossword clues for slimmer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slim \Slim\ (sl[i^]m), a. [Compar. Slimmer; superl. Slimmest.] [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been influenced by slender.]
Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. ``That was a slim excuse.''
--Barrow.Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
--Grose.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: slim) n. A person who is trying to become slim by dieting.
WordNet
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" [syn: slender, slight]
small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: slender]
v. take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain]
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Usage examples of "slimmer".
Etienne Vascogne, and the taller, blonder, and slimmer form of his assistant chief of security, Helga Litwack.
Like all those who scurry in the shadows, he dreamed of being as big as Mercurial some day, but the chances of that were slimmer than Cutty here.
Inside it stood a slimmer, younger Sikh in beautifully laundered salwaartrousers and long, frock-like kameez,who bowed his snug sky-blue turban in greeting.
If she was still alive there was a chance I could save her by cutting open the wound and draining the poison from it while giving her a shot of the right antivenin but with every instant the chances of saving her grew slimmer.
Particularly Bleys, slimmer then than he was now-wherever on the Younger Worlds he might be at this moment, eleven years later.
Its trunk, branchless for sixty feet, was too thick to climb, but he found a younger and slimmer tree, up which he could squirm and from its upper branches traverse to the other.
She decided the limb she was on now was a slimmer, secondary offshoot that forked down from that heavier bough.
Standard commercial cellular reprofiling kits cocooned his torso and limbs, slowly siphoning the fat out of him, adjusting the folds of skin to fit his new, slimmer figure, and ruining most of his OCtattoos in the process.
After a week of effort all he had accomplished was to send a message to a Mughal agent in Cairo informing him of the situation, which had a slim chance of actually arriving and slimmer still of traveling all the way to the emperor.
The new reeker was a little slimmer than the one he had, a brushed-aluminum finish with tiny air intakes and little nozzles where the chem was mixed to make smells.
Struggling to accept he was not after all lost in sickness-spawned delirium, he discovered he was now seeing two people taller, slimmer, and with paler mantles than his own folk: a grave elderly man and a most attractive girl.
The abdominal section was smaller and slimmer than in most spiders.
Her waist was a full four inches slimmer than he'd thought--- must be the damned boiler suit she wore to work, Nomuri thought at once--- and her breasts filled the bra to perfection.
Her waist was a full four inches slimmer than he'd thought -- must be the damned boiler suit she wore to work, Nomuri thought at once -- and her breasts filled the bra to perfection.
Two asymmetrical structures wound up into different parts of the mighty rock maple tree: a substantial section of two additional stories, and a slimmer but taller one that had a tiny fourth-floor meditation chamber.