Slight, disregard, neglect, overlook mean to pay no attention or too little attention to someone or something. To slight is to give only superficial attention to something important: to slight one's work.
Sleight means "deceitful craftiness" or "stratagem," and slight means "having a slim or delicate build"; a slim person is sometimes described as being "slight of build." What is the difference between sleight and slight? Slight is the far more common word.
Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity. Doctors say he has made a slight improvement. He's not the slightest bit worried.
SLIGHT meaning: 1. small in amount or degree: 2. not at all: 3. (of people) thin and delicate: . Learn more.
slight′ness, n. syn: slight, disregard, neglect, overlook mean to pay no attention or too little attention to someone or something. To slight is to ignore or treat as unimportant: to slight one's neighbors. To disregard is to ignore or treat without due respect: to disregard the rules.
slight (third-person singular simple present slights, present participle slighting, simple past and past participle slighted) (transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
Every meaning of slight stems from the Old Norse for "small or flimsy." If you have a slight build, you're slim with small bones. A slight deviation from your plan is a tiny adjustment. As a verb, to slight means to ignore or be indifferent toward someone; it's also the noun for the act of ignoring.
To treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of. To treat with disdain or neglect. To act negligently or carelessly. To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition. To make even or level. To throw heedlessly.