lithe🔊

(obsolete) Mild; calm.

📑 Synonyms: clement gentle mellow

Slim but not skinny.

📑 Synonyms: lithesome lissome swack

💬 Quotations

The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan (1913)

Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

📑 Synonyms: pliant flexible limber

Adaptable.

(obsolete) To become calm.

(obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

(obsolete) To attend; listen, hearken.

To listen to, hearken to.

(Scotland) Shelter.

(archaic, dialect, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire) To thicken (gravy, etc.)

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