Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lithe; lissome.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pliant; limber; nimble; lissome.
Wiktionary
- adj. Describing as being lithe.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. moving and bending with ease
Etymologies
- lithe + -some (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest.”
“Those who decide to remain on the seventh floor past their lithesome 20s have developed ways of coping.”
“Most women I know are still shopping at Aritzia alongside their lithesome daughters who will gladly avert an eye roll with the up speaking cashier and the truth: "no, Mom that looks really GREAT on you" in exchange for leaving the store, three bags full without ever opening their own wallets.”
“I tried to imitate her hair, her lipstick, her lashes, the clothes of the lithesome, beautiful and generically appealing high school girls that I saw in those pages.”
“Despite her lithesome and well-proportioned figure, Galina had no balance.”
“Dark and lithesome ponytailed hunks, dashing redheads with long transparent hair, subtle smiles, and open shirts, blond Adonises as evil as they are handsome; when it really comes down to it, the heart of shojo anime is the bishonen.”
“But when they splash that elongated quasi-pornographic image of a lithesome California beach blonde, barely clothed, giving herself up to G.I. Joe with "A Kiss for the Road," the newspaper sends a not-so-subtle message to the home front: war = glory = sex.”
“At this point, it doesn't even feel like it's Top Chef without some lithesome blond scampering down the beach.”
“Once, at a similar grand-opening event, a lithesome, lycra-clad woman from New York City offered to introduce me to the wonders of compliant, dimpled effluvium.”
“Via the oil company's spy network, they decide to find some, er, bait--Aquaboy's girlfriend, a lithesome, skimpily dressed redhead named Marita?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lithesome’.
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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out of interest
lithesome, wholesome, gruesome, tiresome, worrisome, cumbersome, lonesome, loathsome, burdensome, fearsome, wearisome, irksome and 97 more...
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Adoption agency
"Orphan" words - words in the database but unlisted.
If you would like to adopt one of these words, please leave your request in the comments, along with details of the home environmen...office girls, porperate, prep school, veruncular, metrokiner, chromomania: yellow, foul away, jibberish, cynyc, debbie and warren, perlmutt, cumuls and 244 more...
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The Decemberists
The Decemberists tend to use a lot of interesting words in their songs.
parapet, wastrel, mescaline, indolent, balustrade, vagabond, sprightly, grapple, gunwale, odalisque, timberline, moribund and 116 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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-some Words
gruesome, toothsome, fulsome, handsome, winsome, quarrelsome, burdensome, bothersome, wholesome, cumbersome, tiresome, awesome and 49 more...
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seanahan Means the same as lithe.
Oct 17, 2007