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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLIGHTLY, adv.
1. Weakly; superficially; with inconsiderable force or effect; in a small degree; as a man slightly wounded; an audience slightly affected with preaching.
2. Negligently; without regard; with moderate contempt.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: 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" [syn: slightly, somewhat, more or less]
2: in a slim or slender manner; "a slenderly built woman"; "slightly built" [syn: slenderly, slimly, slightly]

Merriam Webster's

adverb see slight I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slightly Slight"ly, adv. 1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Slightly means to some degree but not to a very large degree. His family then moved to a slightly larger house... They will be slightly more expensive but they last a lot longer... You can adjust it slightly... ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v, ADV prep

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Little. 2. Weakly, feebly, slenderly. 3. Cursorily, negligently, hastily, superficially. 4. Scornfully, contemptuously, disrespectfully, slightingly.

Moby Thesaurus

a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little, exiguously, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly, imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell, in a way, in miniature, in some measure, in the small, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just a bit, kind of, lightly, little, marginally, meagerly, minimally, minutely, negligibly, not hardly, only just, poorly, pretty, punily, quite, rather, scantily, scarcely, small, smally, somewhat, sort of, sparely, sparingly, tant soit peu, to a degree, to some extent, triflingly, very, weakly