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  • 111lithe — lithe, lithesome lissome, *supple, limber Analogous words: slender, slim, slight, *thin: *lean, spare: pliant, pliable, *plastic: nimble, *agile, brisk, spry: graceful, elegant (see corresponding nouns at ELEGANCE) …

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  • 112lithesome — lithe, lithesome lissome, *supple, limber Analogous words: slender, slim, slight, *thin: *lean, spare: pliant, pliable, *plastic: nimble, *agile, brisk, spry: graceful, elegant (see corresponding nouns at ELEGANCE) …

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  • 113slim — *thin, slender, slight, tenuous, rare Analogous words: *lean, spare, skinny, scrawny: *meager, exiguous, scant, scanty: lithe, lithesome, lissome (see SUPPLE) Antonyms: chubby (of persons) …

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  • 114ductile — adj 1. malleable, moldable, shapeable, formable, flexible, bendable, pliant, pliable, plastic, soft; elastic, stretchable, tensible, tensile, extensible, Chiefly Zool., Anat. extensile; (of people and animals) lissome, limber, supple, lithe,… …

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  • 115flexible — adj 1. bendable, pliable, pliant, flexile, snappy, whippy; tractile, ductile, malleable, plastic, mollescent, flaccid; elastic, springy, resilient, stretcha ble, extensile, tensile; supple, limber, lithe, lissome, double jointed, loose limbed. 2 …

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  • 116lightsome — I adj 1. airy, immaterial, incorporeal, bodiless, light, weightless, vaporous, vapory; visionary, phantasmal, chimeral, ethereal, otherworldly, dreamlike; feathery, fluffy, gossamery, gossamer, light as a feather; Ariel like; buoyant, resilient,… …

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  • 117limber — adj. flexible, flexile, flexuous, pliant, pliable, plastic; ductile, fictile, tractile, tractable, malleable, moldable, bendable; elastic, springy, resilient, stretchable; supple, lithe, lithesome, lissome, limber, graceful; extensile, extensible …

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  • 118lithe — adj lithesome, pliant, bendable, flexible, flexile; plastic, moldable, adaptable, compliant, tractable, malleable, ductile, fictile; limber, supple, lissome, Archaic. lithy, loose limbed, loose; nimble, agile, quick, light …

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  • 119pliable — adj 1. flexible, flexile, flexuous, bendable, pliant; elastic, supple, lithe, limber, willowy, lissome; malleable, extensile, extensible, ductile, tractile, plastic, stretchable; bending, shapable, moldable, fictile. 2. persuasible, persuadable,… …

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  • 120slender — adj 1. slim, thin, thin as a rail, reedy, stalky, twiggy, like a pipestem, narrow, narrow as an arrow; spare, lanky, lean; slight, wispy. 2. gracile, willowy, svelte, lissome, lithe, sylphic, sylphlike; wasp waisted, with an hourglass figure,… …

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