Meaning of மெல்லிய in English

Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Full of silt; resembling silt.
Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.
Cunning; dexterous.
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
See Slush, Slushy.
Slouching.
Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
See Quinsy.
Thin; slender; small; minute.
Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.
of Thin
One who thins, or makes thinner.
Somewhat thin.
Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.