slighted

[ slahy-tid ]

adjective

1. treated with indifference, especially pointedly or contemptuously; snubbed:

   She was miffed at the lack of a written invitation, clearly feeling herself the slighted party.

2. treated as unimportant; given insufficient attention, value, or effort:

   Too often, science is a slighted part of the elementary school curriculum.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of slight.

Other Words From

• un·slight·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of slighted¹

First recorded in 1615–25; slight ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; slight ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

There’s a slight risk that there could be an oversupply of apartments in the future, but so far apartments, condos and single-family homes are getting leased or purchased.

From Washington Post

Let them skim against your thighs, and stop when you feel a slight pull in your hamstrings.

From Outside Online

Friday and Saturday, however, look much nicer, with only partly cloudy skies and slight chances of rain.

From Washington Post

Scott’s sweeping vocals and Kelley’s slight grit made them ideal singing partners, while Haywood served as a guitar savant.

From Washington Post

A high waist and nearly invisible front pockets make for a clean, flattering look, and the slight flare at the bottom of the wide leg keeps the Merida playful.

From Outside Online

Diamond is slighted with a trip to a mall in South Carolina.

From The Daily Beast

Salem the prep school kid felt so slighted by a paltry $3 million bonus in 2011 that he left the firm.

From The Daily Beast

Right now, Ukrainians feel slighted and wary about the future.

From The Daily Beast

Everybody has had something happen to them, that they feel slighted.

From The Daily Beast

An author arguing a point of view has a right to be annoyed if the quality of his work has been unfairly slighted.

From The Daily Beast

Gilbert was not at all satisfied with the promise Dolly had given to his father; he thought himself slighted and ill-used.

From Project Gutenberg

Again and again he threw up his command because he thought he was slighted or that others were preferred to him.

From Project Gutenberg

Your duties will call you from one group to another, and require constant watchfulness that no one guest is slighted.

From Project Gutenberg

You can see that she believes her play was slighted and that it is a great deal better than yours, Jess.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, jealousy and perception awoke together—at one sweeping glance backward, she saw herself slighted—foiled—duped!

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• aggrieved
• disgraced
• humiliated
• outraged
• shamed