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Slim vs Gracile - What's the difference?

slim | gracile |

As a noun slim

is slime, mucus.

As an adjective gracile is

slender; thin; lean.

slim

English

Adjective

(slimmer)
  • Slender, thin.
  • # (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
  • Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
  • # (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
  • # (of an object) Long and narrow.
  • # (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
  • (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
    • I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip. }}
  • (South Africa) Sly, crafty.

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
    • I only smoke slims .
  • (East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Charled F. Gilks, editors=David A. Warrell et al., chapter=HIV in the Developing World, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edition=4th ed., volume=Volume 1 citation
    • , passage=As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.}}
  • (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

    • Alternative forms

    * (AIDS) Slim

    Verb

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

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    gracile

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Slender; thin; lean.
  • * 1853 , Works of Walter Savage Landor:
  • *:Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and ... you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of ... a cat
  • * 1971 , :
  • *:Gracile ... By some recent writers misused (through association with grace ) for "Gracefully slender":
  • * 2005 , , The Ancestor's Tale :
    • They seem to have evolved from more ‘gracile'’ apes (' gracile being the opposite of robust).
  • * 2009 , Clive Finlayson, Neanderthals and Modern Humans :
    • A more gracile morphology would have been far more efficient over larger areas.
  • Graceful or gracefully slender.

    • Derived terms

    * gracility

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