adjective, verb
adjective (slimmer, slimmest)
1 (approving) (of a person) thin, in a way that is attractive:
a slim figure / body / waist * She was tall and slim. * How do you manage to stay so slim? * (figurative) Many companies are a lot slimmer than they used to be (= have fewer workers).
2 thinner than usual:
a slim volume of poetry
3 not as big as you would like or expect; small:
a slim chance of success * The party was returned to power with a slim majority.
seealsoSLIMMER, SLIMMING
slimness noun [U]
verb (-mm-) [V] (BrE) (usually used in the progressive tenses) to try to become thinner, for example by eating less:
You can still eat breakfast when you are slimming.
PHRASALVERBS
slim down to become thinner, for example as a result of eating less:
She slimmed down to 60 kilos before her wedding.
slim down
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for slim is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does slim appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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