slimness

slim  (slm)

adj. slim·mer, slim·mest

1. Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.

2. Small in quantity or amount; meager: slim chances of success.

intr. & tr.v. slimmed, slim·ming, slims

1. To become or make slim.

2. To lose or cause to lose weight, as by dieting or exercise.

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[Dutch, bad, sly, from Middle Dutch slimp, slim, bad, crooked.]

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slimly adv.

slimmer n.

slimness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	slimness - a small margin; "the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory"; "the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote" narrow margin, narrowness margin - an amount beyond the minimum necessary; "the margin of victory"
	2.	slimness - the property of an attractively thin person slenderness, slightness leanness, spareness, thinness - the property of having little body fat

Translations

slimness [ˈslɪmnɪs] N → delgadez f

slimness

n

→ Schlankheit f; (of ankle, waist etc) → Schmalheit f; (of volume) → Dünne f

(of resources, profits) → Magerkeit f; (of majority) → Knappheit f; because of the slimness of their chances → weil ihre Chancen so gering waren

slimness [ˈslɪmnɪs] n (goal of slimmer) → l'essere magro/a; (of ankle, wrist, book) → sottigliezza (fig) (of resources) → scarsità, insufficienza

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slimness [ˈslɪmnɪs] n (goal of slimmer) → l'essere magro/a; (of ankle, wrist, book) → sottigliezza (fig) (of resources) → scarsità, insufficienza