Antonyms for slightlyslight·ly

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1. slightlyadverb

   To a small extent or degree.

   He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.

   Synonyms:
   marginally, somewhat, a little

   Antonyms:
   very, quite

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1. slightly, somewhat, more or lessadverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   some, passably, just about, somewhat, slenderly, pretty, slimly, fairly, reasonably, middling, moderately, about, roughly, more or less, or so, approximately, around, close to, jolly

2. slenderly, slimly, slightlyadverb

   in a slim or slender manner

   "a slenderly built woman"; "slightly built"

   Synonyms:
   sparingly, meagrely, more or less, meagerly, somewhat, slimly, slenderly

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1. slightlyadverb

   Synonyms:
   somewhat, superficially, cursorily, hastily

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1. fully

   slightly meaning is less so fully meaning is more

   a particle is slightly displaced from its initial position

   Submitted by anonymous on January 5, 2021  

How to use slightly in a sentence?

1. Yujiro Goto:

   With Chinese markets shrugging off the MSCI move, risk appetite is slightly better than what we saw in the past few days. But markets are wary before the Fed meeting and the Bank of Japan meeting tomorrow and of course the Brexit worries.

2. Tommy Xie:

   There is no urgency for China to maintain its favourable yield differential against the United States as capital outflow and currency stability is no longer the key concern for China at the moment, with U.S.-China trade war looming, a slightly weaker yuan may be in China's favour.

3. Mawlavi Abdullah Mohammad:

   We [ act ] with accordance to Sharia law, firstly, we inform people about good deeds. We preach to them and deliver the message to them in a nice way ; the second time we repeat to them, again ; the third time we speak to them slightly harshly.

4. Les Funtleyder:

   The best case through the end of year is range-bound for healthcare, maybe biased downward slightly.

5. Ryosuke Motani:

   Slightly after the end-Permian mass extinction, there were a lot of open opportunities as life recolonized the Earths surface, these bizarre forms grabbed the open niches and diversified, but were soon wiped out, probably by natural selection. The animal in question is one of them it must have been a slow swimmer and an inefficient feeder, but that was sufficient for the time being.

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