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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. moving and bending with ease;
[syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]


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. [1913 Webster] Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. Light; nimble; active. --Halliwell. -- Lis"some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lissome adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
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