slimming

English

Adjective

slimming (comparative more slimming, superlative most slimming)

1. Making a person seem or become slimmer.

   She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming.

   He's trying to lose weight by drinking slimming tea.

   That dress is very slimming on you.

Antonyms

• fattening

Translations

making a person seem or becoming slimmer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (making a person seem slimmer) 顯瘦的／显瘦的 (xiǎnshòu de), (of slimming clothing) 塑身衣的 (sùshēnyī de), (of slimming tea, exercises, etc.) 減肥的／减肥的 (jiǎnféi de), 苗條的／苗条的 (miáotiao de), 保持身材苗條的／保持身材苗条的 (bǎochí shēncái miáotiao de), 健美的 (jiànměi de)

• Danish: slankende
• Finnish: laihduttava (fi)
• Turkish: inceltici (tr), inceleştirici, sıkılaştırıcı, zayıflatıcı

Verb

slimming

1. present participle and gerund of slim

Noun

slimming (countable and uncountable, plural slimmings)

1. The process of making or becoming slimmer.
   • 1990, The New Law Journal (volume 139, part 1, page 130)

     We have become accustomed to Thatcherite slimmings of the system — massive ward closures punctuated from time to time by the royal opening of an Aids unit for ten patients, but here is something new.