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Here is Your Word for Today. May 14, 2008 |
Hai!
Pronunciation : líssom 1. Having the ability to move with ease 2. Gracefully slender, moving and bending with ease 2. Easily bent Old English - līthe - gentle - Indo-European - flexible lissome, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike, limber hard, inflexible • She seemed so much softer, so much more pliant and tender and lissome. • There was a grace, which no austerity could diminish, about every movement of her lissome, slender form. • lissomely : Adverb • lissomeness : Noun
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