Lissom

Quick meaning: Lissom is an adjective meaning Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.

Meaning

Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.

Example Sentences

A brig you see, sir, is much more laboursome in a gale of wind. A Schooner is much lissomer built.

Now, our country lads, [...] are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English.

Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand; / Her eyes a bashful azure, and her hair / In gloss and hue the chestnut, when the shell / Divides threefold to show th'fruit within.

[A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]

Word Forms

• lissomer
• lissomest
• lissome

Synonyms for lissom

Depending on context, synonyms include limber, lithesome, supple, bain, bendable, bendsome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lissome, lithesome, lithe, svelte, supple, graceful.

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