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svelte
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective svelte has 3 senses
- svelte(s = adj.all) polished, refined, urbane - showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
- svelte(s = adj.all) lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, sylphlike - moving and bending with ease; Array
- svelte(s = adj.all) slender, slight, slim - being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
THESAURUS
svelte
airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, insubstantial, lacy, light, misty, papery, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy
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