Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slender reed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: slen-der reed
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person, fact, or resource on which one can rely only to a limited extent.

Example Sentences

""It was perfectly natural for you to think that a lad of eighteen was a slender reed to lean on in the time of trouble and danger.""
""It is a slender reed," Gilbert said, "for so mighty an issue to rest upon.""
"Yet these precedents offer no more than a slender reed for Gordon Brown, almost hopelessly down in the polls, to cling to."
"The nomination of a gay black Miami judge to the federal bench will not move forward after Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his support over concerns about the judge’s actions in two criminal cases. . . . “That is a slender reed for Senator Rubio to hang this on,” said Representative Alcee Hastings, Democrat of Florida, referring to the two court cases."

Inflected Forms

slender reeds (plural)

Phrases

broken reed

Frequently Paired Words

broken reed

Questions

What does slender reed mean?: A person, fact, or resource on which one can rely only to a limited extent.

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