SLENDERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slenderly mean? 

• SLENDERLY (adverb)
  The adverb SLENDERLY has 2 senses:

1. in a slim or slender manner

2. to a meager degree or in a meager manner

  Familiarity information: SLENDERLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLENDERLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a slim or slender manner

Synonyms:

slenderly; slightly; slimly

Context example:

slightly built

Pertainym:

slender (being of delicate or slender build)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a meager degree or in a meager manner

Synonyms:

meagerly; meagrely; slenderly; sparingly

Context example:

the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources

Pertainym:

slender (small in quantity)

 Context examples 

I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Both were fair complexioned and slenderly made; both possessed faces full of distinction and intelligence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)