Search Result for "svelte":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience;
- Example: "his polished manner"
- Example: "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
[syn: polished, refined, svelte, urbane]
2. moving and bending with ease;
[syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
3. being of delicate or slender build;
- Example: "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris
- Example: "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"
- Example: "watched her slight figure cross the street"
[syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "svelte": airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, insubstantial, lacy, light, misty, papery, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy
