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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Planted with or abounding in willows.
  2. adj. Resembling a willow tree, especially:
  3. adj. Flexible; pliant.
  4. adj. Tall, slender, and graceful.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Abounding with willows.
  2. Resembling a willow; flexible; drooping; pensile: graceful.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a person tall, slender and graceful
  2. adj. of a place having willow trees

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Abounding with willows.
  2. adj. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. slender and graceful

Examples

  • “Then, before I can stop him, he calls a willowy black male over, saying carelessly, Brett, this is the guy I told you about—now you take care my friend, ’kaaaay?”

    Simon & Schuster: Hollywood Savage

  • “Here's a quick clip of her explaining to me that after cutting the final speech from The Tempest, she decided to put it back via the song in the end credits, which, she felt, had to be performed by the mighty Beth Gibbons, best known as the willowy, wounded - and occasionally wrathful - voice of Portishead.”

    The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

  • “Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray.”

    The Wall Street Journal: I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina

  • “If thin fly-away hair could be called willowy, she was willowy from head to toe.”

    Frank Lloyd Wright « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts

  • “Tall and what is known as willowy, with dark chestnut hair, very broad, dark eyebrows, very soft, quick eyes, and a pretty mouth, -- when she did not accentuate it with lip-salve, -- she had more sheer quiet vitality than any girl I ever saw.”

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922

  • “Mrs. Means was tall and weedy, with a figure that used to be called willowy, and was now admitted to be lank; her once fair complexion had faded into sallowness, and her light hair had been frizzed till there was little left of it.”

    "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus

  • “In common with all of us, he had heard that shape of girl called willowy, but he made up his mind that sweetbriery would be the word for Miss Hernshaw, in whose face a virginal youth suggested the tender innocence and surprise of the flower, while the droop of her figure, at once delicate and self-reliant, arrested the fancy with a sense of the pendulous thorny spray.”

    Questionable Shapes

  • “Finally, it seems like people are beginning to realize that we're not all Gisele," said the 38-year-old mother of four, referring to willowy Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen.”

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

  • “Another potential point of conflict: Housewife Lynda Erkiletian calls the willowy Salahi,”

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  • “I was described as willowy one time while running track," she said.”

    Kitsap Sun Stories

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