Synonyms for slightly
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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. slightlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   little, in a small degree

2. slightlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   weakly, feebly, slenderly

3. slightlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   cursorily, negligently, hastily, in a superficial manner

4. slightlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   scornfully, contemptuously, disrespectfully, slightingly

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1. slightlyadverb

   Synonyms:
   somewhat, superficially, cursorily, hastily

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1. List of paraphrases for "slightly":

   marginally, somewhat, lightly, slight, modestly, mildly, loosely, little, weakly, moderately, minor, gently, rather, bit, just, low, mild

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1. Frank Liu:

   In our company, we had more than 100 assault rifles, but only slightly more than a dozen could be used for shooting practices.

2. Trump Jr.:

   I don't know. I'm gon na go out on a limb here and say if it was Donald Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin said that about, it'd be a slightly different response, did you ever think that maybe Vlad is thrilled to be negotiating against a dolt ?

3. James Fenimore Cooper:

   Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

4. Barry Popkin:

   There has not been a big enough change in sugar-sweetened beverages and refined carbohydrates and fast foods, and there has not been an increase in the healthy foods, we have slightly cut our calories [ but ] we still consume over half our calories from the wrong foods.

5. Paul Offit:

   First of all, that wasn't true. Those two proteins are very different. It's like saying you and I both have the same social security number because they both contain the number five. So that was wrong to begin with, if it was affecting fertility, if natural infection was affecting fertility, then birth rates should have gone down, but that's not what happened. Birth rates have actually gone up slightly. So, those are two pieces of evidence that argue against this vaccine or natural infection in any sense affecting fertility.