sleight
/slaɪt/
sleight noun: cunning; craft; artful practice.
Noun
sleight (countable and uncountable, plural sleights)
- Cunning; craft; artful practice.
- An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
- If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?1866, Henry Smith, Thomas Fuller, The Sermons of Mr. Henry Smith, page 37
- Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
Proper noun capitalized: Sleight
Sleight
- A surname.
sleight meaning in Urdu
sleight in Urdu
- شعبدہ
Forms of sleight
| plural | sleights |
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Origin of sleight
From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sly and slöjd/sloyd.
Words formed from sleight
Words that rhyme with sleight
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- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- spite
- spright
- wite
Questions about sleight
- What does sleight mean?
- Sleight means cunning; craft; artful practice.
- What is sleight in Urdu?
- Sleight in Urdu is شعبدہ. See Sleight meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is sleight?
- Sleight can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sleight?
- Sleight is pronounced /slaɪt/.
- What is the plural of sleight?
- The plural of sleight is sleights.
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