Usually means: Small degree; not severe, minimal.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word SLIGHT:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. slight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slight: Merriam-Webster
  3. slight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slight, slight: Wordnik
  8. slight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slight: Wiktionary
  10. slight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slight: Dictionary.com
  14. slight (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. slight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Slight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slight: Rhymezone
  19. slight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slight: FreeDictionary.org
  22. slight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. slight: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. slight: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. slight: Legal dictionary

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  1. slight: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. slight: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slight: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slight: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See slighted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Slight)

adjective:  Small.
adjective:  Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
adjective:  Not thorough; superficial.
adjective:  Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.
adjective:  (archaic or rare) Not far away in space or time.
adjective:  Of slender build.
adjective:  (regional) Even, smooth or level.
adjective:  (especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
adjective:  (obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
adjective:  (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality.
adjective:  (dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
verb:  (transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.
verb:  (intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
verb:  (transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make even or level.
verb:  (transitive) To throw heedlessly.
noun:  The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
noun:  (obsolete) Sleight.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.

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