slimadjective
uk/slɪm/us/slɪm/slimmer, slimmestslim adjective (THIN)
A1 approving (especially of people) attractively thin:
slim hips/legs
She has a lovely slim figure.
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- She was of slim build with short, dark hair.
- She was slim, svelte and sophisticated.
- She was much slimmer than I remembered her.
- You look so slim in those trousers.
- He looks a lot slimmer now he's exercising.
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Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
- anorexic
- be skin and bone(s) idiom
- elfin
- emaciated
- gaunt
- hatchet-faced
- hollow
- lissome
- lithe
- pinched
- rangy
- skinny
- slenderize
- slight
- spindly
- sylphlike
- trim
- underweight
- waif-like
- wiry
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Thin and fine
slim adjective (SMALL)
very small:
They only have a slim chance of winning (= it's unlikely that they will win).
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Extremely small
- atomized
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- fractional
- imperceptible
- infinitesimal
- irreducible
- knee-high
- Lilliputian
- micro
- microscopic
- miniature
- minuscule
- minute 1
- nano-
- teeny
- tiddly
- tiny
- titchy
- vanishingly
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slimness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈslɪm.nəs/us/ˈslɪm.nəs/
slimverb [ I ]
uk/slɪm/us/slɪm/-mm- UKto try to get thinner by eating less food and doing more exercise:
You don't have much lunch - are you slimming?
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Exercising & training
- aerial yoga
- Anti-Gravity yoga
- barbell
- bench press
- benchpress
- bodybuilding
- calisthenics
- cardio
- cross-trainer
- cross-training
- crunch
- exercise
- firm sth up
- limber
- multigym
- Pilates
- t'ai chi
- train
- warm
- weight training
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Diets & dieting
Phrasal verb(s)
slim down
slim sth down
slimnoun [ U ]
uk/slɪm/us/slɪm/East African for AIDS (= a serious disease that destroys the body's ability to fight infection)
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Bacteria, moulds, germs & viruses
- adenovirus
- antimicrobial
- bacteriology
- bacteriophage
- C. difficile
- E. coli
- fungal
- fungoid
- fungus
- germ
- HIV-positive
- listeria
- microbe
- microorganism
- mould
- organism
- probiotic
- shitake mushroom
- taenia
- West Nile virus
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