About The Word Lithe
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Lithe
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What's The Definition Of Lithe?
[adj] gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lithe: graceful | lissom | lissome | lithesome | slender | supple | svelte | sylphlike Related Terms | Find terms related to Lithe: adaptable | bendable | bending | compliant | ductile | elastic | extensible | extensile | fabricable | facile | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | formable | formative | giving | impressible | impressionable | lean | like putty | limber | lissome | lithesome | malleable | moldable | plastic | pliable | pliant | receptive | responsive | sensitive | sequacious | shapable | slender | slight | slim | spare | springy | submissive | supple | susceptible | thin | tractable | tractile | whippy | willowy | yielding See Also | Lithe In Webster's Dictionary \Lithe\, v. i. & i. [Icel ?. See {Listen}.]
To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
\Lithe\, a. [AS. ?, for ? tender, mild, gentle; akin to G. lind, gelind, OHG. lindi, Icel. linr, L. lenis soft, mild, lentus flexible, and AS. linnan to yield. Cf. {Lenient}.] 1. Mild; calm; as, lithe weather. [Obs.] 2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton. \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. ?. See {Lithe}, a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.] |
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