svelte
Adjective Satellite
- showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
- moving and bending with ease
- being of delicate or slender build; - Frank Norris
Adj
- Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
- Refined, delicate.
Adjective
- Gracefully slender and elegant, often referring to a person's figure.
Examples
- The svelte ’QUI’ he managed to squeeze in opened up a triple word score for his opponent.
Origin / Etymology
From French svelte, from Italian svelto (“stretched out”), past participle of svellere (“to pluck out, root out”), from Vulgar Latin *exvellere, from ex + vellere (“to pluck, stretch”).
Synonyms
lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, polished, refined, slender, slight, slim, supple, sylphlike, urbane, elegant, gentle, willowy
Scrabble Score: 9
svelte: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsvelte: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
svelte: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary