Svelte

Quick meaning: Svelte is an adjective meaning Attractively thin; gracefully slender.

Meaning

Attractively thin; gracefully slender.

More Meanings

1. Refined, delicate.

Example Sentences

My first priority was to help Trumps lose her pudgy look and gain a healthier, svelter size.

At 61, Bryant looks good – smart and svelte in an electric blue suit, youthful, a full head of hair except for a white scar at the back that looks like a side door into his brain.

If her dream of being naked in front of Simon were to come true – and she knew, somehow, that it would – she needed to be the sveltest version of herself that had ever existed. Fries wouldn't help peel away those pounds.

Clearly the producers of “The Producers” were so little inclined to tinker with a winning formula that they chose not to excise a few lines of dialogue to accommodate the svelter physique of their new leading man, preposterous though it is that anyone in a fit of pique would deride a fellow as “once-husky.”

Word Forms

• svelter
• sveltest

Synonyms for svelte

Depending on context, synonyms include lithe, willowy, elegant, gentle, refined, sophisticated.

Related Words

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

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