Search Result for "lithe":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. moving and bending with ease;
[syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lithe \Lithe\ (l[imac][th]), v. t. & i. [Icel hl[=y][eth]a. See Listen.] To listen or listen to; to hearken to. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lithe \Lithe\, a. [AS. l[imac][eth]e, for lin[eth]e 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.] [1913 Webster] 2. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. --Milton. Syn: lithesome. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lithe \Lithe\, v. t. [AS. l[imac][eth]ian. See Lithe, a.] To smooth; to soften; to palliate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
