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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Readily bent; supple: lithe birch branches.
  2. adj. Marked by effortless grace: a lithe ballet dancer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Soft; tender; mild; calm; agreeable.
  2. Easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber.
  3. Pleasant; fine.
  4. Synonyms Pliable, supple, willowy.
  5. To become calm.
  6. To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen.
  7. To relax; make less stiff.
  8. To give ear; attend; listen.
  9. To listen to.
  10. To go.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive, obsolete To go.
  2. v. intransitive, obsolete To become calm.
  3. v. transitive, obsolete To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
  4. v. intransitive, obsolete To give ear; attend; listen.
  5. v. transitive To listen to.
  6. n. Scotland Shelter.
  7. adj. obsolete Mild; calm.
  8. adj. slim but not skinny
  9. adj. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
  2. adj. obsolete Mild; calm.
  3. adj. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber.
  4. v. obsolete To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. moving and bending with ease

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English līþe ("gentle, mild"), from Proto-Germanic *linþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *lento. Akin to Danish and German lind ("mild"), Icelandic linr ("soft to the touch"). Not attested in Gothic nor Old Norse. Some sources list also Latin lenis ("soft"), others Latin lentus ("supple"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English līthe, flexible, mild. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. mild
  1. calm
  1. smooth
  1. soften
  1. palliate
  1. flexible
  1. lithesome
  1. lissome

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘lithe’

  1. graceful

same context (17)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. supple
  2. slim
  3. sinewy
  1. agile
  2. lean
  3. shapely
  1. sleek
  2. dark-haired
  3. broad-shouldered
  1. athletic
  2. blond
  3. good-looking
  1. limber
  2. comely
  3. bronzed
  1. willowy
  2. robust

rhymes (5)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Blythe
  1. blithe
  1. sithe
  1. tithe
  1. wythe

reverse dictionary (27)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. leath
  2. lethe
  3. lyth
  4. lythe
  5. felid
  1. felidae
  2. litheness
  3. lissom
  4. lithely
  5. pliant
  1. soboliferous
  2. lithesome
  3. clean-limbed
  4. gazellinæ
  5. limber
  1. lissome
  2. lithesomeness
  3. lithy
  4. sinuous
  5. lithe
  1. feline
  2. lithe-bodied
  3. whip
  4. ferret
  5. flexible
  1. supple
  2. supple-jack

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Words tagged ‘lithe’

  1. lissomely

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  • Arthurpod "She was lithe and light and graceful as she ran..."

    Lord Foul's Bane Jul 29, 2012

  • Lolita After many hours of insidious tattle, I disentangled from his lithe arm and sauntered away to my lone gratification. May 12, 2011

  • shadesofinsanity lissom Apr 4, 2009

  • ofravens Behind snarled thickets of my eyes
    Lurks the lithe one
    from "Pursuit," by Sylvia Plath Apr 8, 2008

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