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💸 Barely or little 🦢 Thinly or gracefully
slenderly

slenderly

4.1
In a thin graceful way
  • adverb
  • /ˈslɛndərli/
translation icon : delgadamente
  • The tree grew slenderly towards the sky, its branches reaching out in a delicate manner.
  • slenderly built

Examples

  • The dancer glided slenderly across the stage, captivating everyone with her grace.

  • James Carfax was far taller than she, lean and slenderly built.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • She moved slenderly through the crowd, weaving effortlessly between people.

Synonyms

slimly
vsslenderly
5.0

Moving in a thin, graceful way

is more graceful and elegant in narrowness rather than plain thinness
leanly
vsslenderly
4.2

In a thin, simple way without extra things

is more graceful in narrowness rather than plainly spare
wispily
vsslenderly
7.4

In a thin, light way like smoke rising

is a firmer, graceful narrowness rather than a faint delicate thinness

Antonyms

broadly
26 2.7

In a wide or large way, for example with a big smile

How Thin

slenderly
4.1
thinly
24 1.2

Surface Forms

slenderly positive

Morphology

slenderly = slender (transparent) = slender + ly

Clear adverbial formation from 'slender' meaning 'thin, slim', so 'slenderly' means 'in a thin/slim manner'.

Etymology

Slenderly comes from slender ('thin' or 'graceful') and the ending -ly that makes it describe how something is done. So, to move or stand 'slenderly' is to do so in a thin, elegant way.