lithe
pronunciation
How to pronounce lithe in British English:
UK [laɪð]
How to pronounce lithe in American English:
US [laɪð]
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- Adjective:
- gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
Word Origin
- lithe (adj.)
- Old English liðe "soft, mild, gentle, meek," from Proto-Germanic *linthja- (cognates: Old Saxon lithi "soft, mild, gentle," Old High German lindi, German lind, Old Norse linr, with characteristic loss of "n" before "th" in English), from PIE root *lent- "flexible" (cognates: Latin lentus "flexible, pliant, slow," Sanskrit lithi). In Middle English, used of the weather. Current sense of "easily flexible" is from c. 1300. Related: Litheness.
Example
- 1. Rather than being lithe and graceful , they were short and stubby .
- 2. The astronomy photograph gathers the sky -- lithe and graceful .
- 3. Wang lithe politics of neutrality and transcendental values .
- 4. A lithe , barbell-toting , tofu-eating santa in red spandex and running shoes isn 't our idea of jolly .
- 5. The carcass beautiful girl lithe and graceful spends a bikini .