Being of delicate or slender build:
— She was slender as a willow shoot is slender.

synonyms: slight, slim, svelte.

Roget 643: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.    subordinate etc. (inferior) 34; mediocre etc. (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary etc. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.    trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile etc. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak etc. 160; powerless etc. 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble^†, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin^†; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle^†, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.    poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible etc. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel^†, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid^†, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.].    not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw etc. n.; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina [It]; vain etc. (useless) 645.    ... show more

Roget 32: small, little; diminutive etc. (small in size) 193; minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry etc. (unimportant) 643; faint etc. (weak) 160; slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager etc. (insufficient) 640; sparing; few etc. 103; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.    inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small; atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic.    mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run.    dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.    ... show more

Roget 203: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like etc. (filament) 205; finespun^†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^†; contracted etc. 195; unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^†; slender as a thread.    [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.    attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid^†, marcid^†, barebone, rawboned.    monomolecular.    ... show more

Polish: smukły, smuklutki

Very narrow.

synonym: thin.

Having little width in proportion to the length or height.

Polish: wysmukły

Small in quantity:
— Slender wages.

synonym: slim.