Slight vs Slime - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between slight and slime

is that slight is (obsolete) foolish; silly; weak in intellect while slime is (obsolete) = ((l)).

As verbs the difference between slight and slime

is that slight is to treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of while slime is to coat with slime.

As nouns the difference between slight and slime

is that slight is the act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy while slime is soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

As an adjective slight

is small, weak or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.

slight

English

Adjective

(er)

Small, weak or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,

Not stout or heavy; slender.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

his own figure, which was formerly so slight

(obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

(Hudibras)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* slightish * slightly * slightness

Verb

(en verb)

To treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.

* Cowper

the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies

To treat with disdain or neglect.

To act negligently or carelessly.

(military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.

(Clarendon)

To make even or level.

(Hexham)

To throw heedlessly.

* Shakespeare

The rogue slighted me into the river.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* slightingly

Noun

(wikipedia slight) (en noun)

The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.

* (Benjamin Franklin)

Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.

Sleight.

(Spenser)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* put a slight upon

References

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

* lights

slime

English

Noun

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

* Shakespeare

As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.

A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.

* 2005 , G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery

If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime . It's still blackmail.

(figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.

* , II.x:

th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime [...].

(obsolete) = ((l))

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Derived terms

* slime mold * pink slime

Synonyms

* (any substance of a dirty nature) sludge

Verb

(slim)

To coat with slime.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

(figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.

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