Word Meanings - SLIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To slight. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to SLIGHTEN)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• SLIGHTY
  Slight. Echard.
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.
• SLIGHTFUL
  See SLEIGHTFUL
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• SLIGHTING
  Characterized by neglect or disregard.
• GASLIGHT
  1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. 2. A gas jet or burner.
• MISLIGHT
  To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.