lithe
Plural: lithes
Adjective Satellite
- moving and bending with ease
Adj
- Mild; calm.
- Slim but not skinny.
- Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
- Adaptable.
Verb
- To become calm.
- To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
- To attend; listen, hearken.
- To listen to, hearken to.
- to thicken (gravy, etc.)
Noun
- Shelter.
Adjective
- Graceful, flexible, and easily bending; agile.
Examples
- A lithe strategy allows a player to adapt to any changes on the board.
- lithe body
- lithe weather
- the elephant’s lithe trunk.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lithe, from Old English līþe (“gentle, mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lentos.
Akin to Saterland Frisian lied (“thin, skinny, gaunt”), Danish, Dutch, and archaic German lind (“mild”). Some sources also list Latin lenis (“soft”) and/or Latin lentus (“supple”) as possible cognates.
Synonyms
lissom, lissome, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike, bain, bendable, bendsome, bendy, clement, flexible, flexile, gaunt, gentle, gracile, lank, lean, leansome, limber, lithe, mellow, pliant, rangy, sleek, slight, slim, slinky, swack, willowy
Scrabble Score: 8
lithe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlithe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lithe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary