[syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
svelte
adj 1: 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" [syn:
polished, refined, svelte, urbane]
2: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom,
lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte,
sylphlike]
3: being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a
willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with
straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the
street" [syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "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