 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
slightly
adverb
1: to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat
self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one
slice of cake was slightly larger than the other"
[syn: {somewhat}]
2: in a slim or slender manner; "a slenderly built woman";
"slightly built" [syn: {slenderly}, {slimly}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slightly \Slight"ly\, adverb
1. In a slight manner.
2. Slightingly; negligently. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "slightly":
a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little,
exiguously, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly,
imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell, in a way, in miniature,
in some measure, in the small, inappreciably, inconsequentially,
insignificantly, just a bit, kind of, lightly, little, marginally,
meagerly, minimally, minutely, negligibly, not hardly, only just,
poorly, pretty, punily, quite, rather, scantily, scarcely, small,
smally, somewhat, sort of, sparely, sparingly, tant soit peu,
to a degree, to some extent, triflingly, very, weakly
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