Slight

Definition

slight 1 /slaÇt/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) အနည္းငယ္။ a slight error/change/ advantage/ problem/headache ❍ The bed was at a slight angle to the wall. ❍ Her chances of success are slight. ❍ do sth without the slightest difficulty (ie with no difficulty at all) ❍ She takes offence at the slightest thing (ie is very easily offended). (ခ) ( usu derog ) ေပါ့တန္ေသာ။ မေလးနက္ေသာ။ Compared to his early work, this is a rather slight novel. သူ႕ အရင္ လက္ရာနဲ႔စာရင္ ဒီဝတၳဳက နည္းနည္း ေပါ့တယ္။ ၂။ သြယ္လ်ေသာ။ ပါးလ်ေသာ။ a slight figure/girl ❍ The framework looks too slight to support such a heavy load. ❏ not in the slightest [ IDM ] နည္းနည္းကေလးမွ်။ လံုးဝ။ You didn't embarrass me in the slightest. ❏ slightly adv ၁။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္းပါးပါး။ a slightly bigger house ❍ The two chairs are slightly different. ❍ The patient is slightly better today. ❍ I know her slightly. ၂။ ပါးပါးလ်လ်။ သြယ္သြယ္လ်လ်။ She is small and slightly built. slightness n [U] slight 2 /slaÇt/ v ပစ္ေတာင္းဆန္ခါ ဆက္ဆံသည္။ အရွက္ခြဲ သည္။ She felt slighted because no one spoke to her. n ~ ( on sb/sth ) ေစာ္ကားမႈ။ My comment was not meant as a slight (on you/your achievements).

Examples

1. A slight increase in temperature
2. Jill gave a slight smile.
3. I haven’t given the slightest thought to my holiday plans.
4. A slight young woman