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lissome
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective lissome has 1 sense
- lissome(s = adj.all) lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike - moving and bending with ease; Array Derived form noun lissomeness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
lissome, a. [For lithesome.].
- Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. [1913 Webster]"Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand." [1913 Webster]
- Light; nimble; active. Halliwell.
THESAURUS
lissome
adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding
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