lissome

(adjective) Easily bent; supple.

Synonyms: lithe, supple, slender

Usage: There was a grace, which no austerity could diminish, about every movement of her lissome, slender form.

Some examples of lissome bodies are those of mermaids twisting through the water, small snakes squiggling into sand piles, and men and women who bound up stairs as if they're light as air. A straw is thin and bendy, and you can use it to lift some liquid from a glass. Lissome sounds a little like "lift some," and it's an adjective for thin and flexible people, like a lissome ballerina with a gracefully arched back. Light, lean, liquid in movement

And of the three kids, this most afflicted my youngest, Virginia — my carefree, lissome river sprite.

LISSOME.- ADJS. 1. Flexible; pliant. 2. Agile; lithe. Ballet dancers have a unique lissome.

Golden Aspen leaves moved lissomely in the soft breeze this morning.

White collar criminals find the laws that govern their monetary discretions lissome and obfuscatory.

Notes: As today's Word History will show, lissome, lithesome, and lithe all share the identical meaning and are variations of one and the same word. Those slender enough can walk about lissomely as a result of their lissomeness.

In Play: Lissome implies movement facilitated by slenderness and flexibility: "Grace had grown into a charming, lissome teen-ager who leapt across the stage in her tutu effortlessly." This word refers to slender things but it implies motion: "Ages ago, when I was winsome and lissome, I could dance the limbo under a rod less than 2 feet from the floor."

Word History: Today's Word reflects remarkable indecision in the minds of English speakers over a particularly long period of time. The original word was lithe [laidh] which was first extended for no apparent reason to lithesome [laidh-sêm] and then reduced to lissome—all without the slightest shift in meaning. The original stem shows up in some languages related to English with an N, as we see in German lind "soft, dulcet" and Latin lentus "soft, pliant, tough".

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Wonderfully expressed!

--- and they sneakily and lissomely use the monetary discretions to finance drug, sex, alcohol, military, power-addictions, corporate insanity to befog the people's mind so that people revere their own enemy...

White collar criminals do not want young people to be truly educated and edified, but to be as stupidly blind and ignorant like their parents and all the ancestors before them... they have distributed cell phones among the young, but the young who have at least a little brain can turn it into a victory over those evils mentioned above...

LISSOME.- adj. 1. Flexible; pliant. 2. Agile; lithe. Ballet makes our bodies lissome.