Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a meager or inadequate manner: Describes something existing or done to a small, insufficient, or barely adequate degree.
   • In a slim or gracefully thin manner: Describes a physical build that is thin, graceful, and often delicate.

Usage Examples

• In a meager manner:
  • The region is slenderly populated, with vast stretches of empty land.
  • Historical records from that period are slenderly preserved.
• In a slim manner:
  • She was slenderly built, moving with a dancer's grace.
  • The column was slenderly crafted from a single piece of marble.

Advanced Usage

• "Slenderly endowed": Having a meager or limited supply of something (e.g., resources, qualities).
  • The university library is slenderly endowed with materials from that era.
• "Slenderly represented": Having minimal or inadequate representation.
  • Minority viewpoints were slenderly represented in the official report.

Variants and Related Words

• Slender (adjective):
  • (Of a person or part of the body) Gracefully thin.

    • She has a slender figure.
  • Meager or limited.

    • There is slender evidence to support the claim.
• Slenderness (noun): The quality or state of being slender.

Synonyms

• Meagerly: In a meager or scanty way.
• Sparsely: In a sparse or thinly scattered manner.
• Slimly: In a slim manner.
• Slightly: To a small degree; delicately built.

Antonyms

• Abundantly: In large quantities; plentifully.
• Amply: More than sufficiently; generously.
• Stoutly: In a sturdy, thick, or fat manner.

Adverb

1. to a meager degree or in a meager manner
   • these voices are meagerly represented at the conference
   • the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources
2. in a slim or slender manner
   • a slenderly built woman
   • slightly built