Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - slight

(slighter, slightest, slights, slighting, slighted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity. Doctors say he has made a slight improvement... We have a slight problem... He’s not the slightest bit worried. = small ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A slight person has a fairly thin and delicate looking body. She is smaller and slighter than Christie... ADJ • slightly ...a slightly built man. ADV: ADV -ed 3. If you are slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important. They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted. VERB: usu passive, feel V-ed • Slight is also a noun. It isn’t a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class. N-COUNT: usu with supp 4. You use in the slightest to emphasize a negative statement. That doesn’t interest me in the slightest... PHRASE: with brd-neg c darkgreen]emphasis