Definition of slender:

part of speech: adjective

Slim; thin; small in circumference compared with the length; slight; limited; inadequate.

Usage examples:

• A tall, slender woman, with round shoulders, stood over the red- hot stove, stirring the potatoes. Honoré Willsie in "Judith of the Godless Valley".

• Hers was the slender face of youth. Meredith Nicholson in "The Madness of May".

• The Rector as he pulled at his pipe could still feel the fluttering of her slender hand in his. Mrs. Humphrey Ward in "The Case of Richard Meynell".

• She did not speak; and I, content to watch the slender hands stealing over the keys, would not, until my eyes fell upon her right wrist. Stanley J. Weyman in "When Love Calls".