lissome

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lissome
    adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome}, {lissom},
           {lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte},
           {sylphlike}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lissom \Lis"som\, Lissome \Lis"some\ (l[i^]s"s[u^]m), a. [For
   lithesome.]
   1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
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            Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   2. Light; nimble; active. --Halliwell. -- {Lis"some*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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