1
as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
stretching exercises designed to make the athlete's limbs more lithesome
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2
as in graceful
moving easily
the lithesome panther moved effortlessly and noiselessly through the rain forest
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Recent Examples of lithesome
Upon seeing its lithesome shape for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show, Enzo Ferrari famously declared the Jaguar E-type to be the most beautiful car in the world.
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Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2021
Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lithesome
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These include electric vehicles with extended driving ranges, large-scale renewable energy storage systems that can balance intermittent solar and wind power, and lightweight, flexible power sources for portable and wearable electronics.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Airlines have been alerting customers whose flights are canceled and offering flexible rebooking and refund options to other travelers headed to those 40 airports.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Characterized by graceful, winding arms that spiral out from a bright central bulge, these systems are rich with both young and old stars, swirling gas and cosmic dust.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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After winning over America with his epic one-liners and graceful skates, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon tackled the dance floor alongside partner Jenna Johnson.—
Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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Resident Heather Lemcool claimed, per the outlet, that the human remains were in a box and plastic bag, rather than an urn.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Each garden partner is provided a tray with a plastic pot, soil, three seasonal plants and a plastic saucer.—
The San Diego Union Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Nat wore a slinky blue dress, which suited her willowy frame.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Dean’s clearly defined her lithe sound, which comes packaged with a distinct vision for her artistry.—
Christopher Claxton,
Billboard,
4 Nov. 2025
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Del Toro’s being—lithe, slate-colored, his scars tracing the lines of his musculature—recovers the grace Dr. Frankenstein originally intended.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Raskob took his own leap into the political fray by bankrolling Smith and using the DNC to settle scores—with the help of a pliant press.—
Evan Hughes,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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As Perez wrote, Musk’s free-speech absolutism was a fiction perpetuated by a pliant media.—
Jacob Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Two ultra-limber actors — Hassiem Muhammad and Ryan Sellers — in garish body makeup (and dance shoes) merge limbs and psyches for an electric demonstration of poetry in motion.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
26 Jan. 2023
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For thousands of years, people have turned to yoga to feel more limber, release stress and rejuvenate their overall physical and mental health.—
Forrest Brown,
CNN,
21 June 2022
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This one’s floppy collar drew me in, while the $25 price kept me on the page.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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As a remedy, researchers have created a soft mechanical metamaterial—a rubber sheet cut into a repeating pattern—that can perform matrix-vector multiplication using floppy modes, or motions that require almost no energy.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Lithesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lithesome. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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