Lissom \Lis"som\, Lissome \Lis"some\ (l[i^]s"s[u^]m), a. [For
lithesome.]
1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
[1913 Webster]
Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
2. Light; nimble; active. --Halliwell. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lissome
adj : gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: lissom,
lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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