Definition of "slight" []

• Small in size, degree, or amount: a slight tilt; a slight surplus. (adjective)
• Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail: a slight foundation; slight evidence. (adjective)
• Of small importance or consideration; trifling: slight matters. (adjective)
• Small and slender in build or construction; delicate. (adjective)
• To treat as of small importance; make light of. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Your expression, "and tends to depart in a slight degree," I think hardly grammatical; a _tendency_ to depart cannot very well be said to be in a slight degree; a _departure_ can, but a tendency must be either a _slight tendency_ or a _strong tendency_; the degree to which the departure may reach must depend on favourable or unfavourable causes in addition to the tendency itself."
• ""In Greece there is two options, pain or default, or what I call a slight combination of the two, pain and restructuring with external support from your European partners and your friends in Washington," Buiter said."
• "They're reporting what they call slight but significant movement in his right arm and leg."