Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to nymphs; nymph-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to nymphs; ladylike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
nymph or nymphs. - adjective Resembling a
nymph .
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Examples
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Her pupils were much photographed in airy attitudes on beaches, dancing with the high knee-action so much prized in horses; flinging themselves into the air; curveting, with the accent on the curve; clasping one another in groups of nymphish innocence and artificial grace.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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