Lithe

Definition: Lithe

Lithe

Adjective

1. Gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease.

Date "lithe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	LITHE Object-oriented with extensible syntax. "LITHE: A Language Combining a Flexible Syntax and Classes", D. Sandberg, Conf Rec 9th Ann ACM Sym POPL, ACM 1982, pp.142-145. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Synonyms: Lithe

Synonyms: lissom (adj), lissome (adj), lithesome (adj), slender (adj), supple (adj), svelte (adj), sylphlike (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Softness	Adjective: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lithe

English words defined with "lithe": Lithely. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lithe": GREAT ♦ Woman. (references)

Etymologies containing "lithe": Clematis ♦ lithesome, Lithy. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld, it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind. The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the American variety (felis pugnans), is omnivorous and can be taught not to talk. Balthasar Pober
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"Lithe" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lithe" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	116	29,969

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "lithe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zhdërvjellët (agile, dexterous, dextrous, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, supple, versatile), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

Arabic		‏لدن (ductile, elastic, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, plastic, pliant, soft, supple, yielding), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian		гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, soft, supple, svelte, tractable, versatile, willowy), жилав (leathery, nervy, resilient, rubbery, sinewy, stringy, tough, wiry), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile). (various references)

Chinese		姍 (deprecate). (various references)

Czech		pružný (elastic, flexible, lissome, lithesome, pliable, resilient, rubbery, springy, supple, yielding), poddajný (amenable, compliant, docile, floppy, meek, pliable, pliant, submissive, supple, tame, yielding). (various references)

Farsi		نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Limber, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), لاغراندام , خم شو (Limber, Pliable, Pliant). (various references)

Finnish		taipuisa (flexible, pliable, pliant, supple), norja (Norway, supple). (various references)

French		souple (limber, limp, lissome), agile (limber, lissome, lively). (various references)

German		geschmeidig (adroit, ductile, flexible, glib, lissome, lissomely, lithely, malleable, pliable, pliant, sleek, smooth, soft, supple, workable). (various references)

Greek		ευκίνητοσ (agile, light footed, mobile, nimble, nippy, spry, svelte, vanquishable, vincible). (various references)

Hebrew		כפיף (flexible, limber, malleable, pliable, pliant, subordinate, supple). (various references)

Hungarian		ruganyos (elastic, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, springy, supple, to walk with a swing), karcsú (attenuate, fine, jimp, lank, rangy, reedy, slender, slight, slim, svelte), hajlékony (ductile, flexible, limber, limp, lissom, lissome, lithesome, nimble, pliable, pliant, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding). (various references)

Italian		flessuoso (flexuous, lissom, lissome, lithesome, sinuous, supple), flessibile (flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple, whippy), agile (agile, dexterous, dextrous, fleet, lean, light, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, nimble, quick, slippy, supple). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		柔軟 (flexible). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じゅうなん (flexible). (various references)

Manx		feiosagh (flimsy, fragile, frail, slender, thin, thin in build, weak, weakling, weed, weed of person, weedy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ithelay

Portuguese		litargírio (litharge), flexível (bendable, collapsible, deflective, demountable, ductile, flexible, flexible tube, flexile, folding, limber, limp, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, soft, springy, supple, whippy, willowy), brando (bland, dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flag, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mild, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, tender), ágil (able, active, adroit, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light footed, lightsome, limber, lissome, list, lithium, nimble, skillful, springy, spry, volant). (various references)

Romanian		vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), suplu (elastic, flexible, flexile, graceful, light, lissom, slender, slim, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding), sprinten (agile, agilely, alive, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lightsome, lissom, lively, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, trippingly, wanton, wing-footed), mlãdios (adaptable, agile, graceful, limber, lissom, supple), binevoitor (amiable, benevolent, benignant, bland, charitable, condescending, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, genteel, gentle, good, good natured, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, nice, propitious, ungrudging, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, yielding). (various references)

Russian		гибкий (ductile, elastic, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, reedy, supple, versatile, whippy, wiry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		savitljiv (elastic, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple, whippy, willowy, yielding), gibak (double jointed, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, springy, supple). (various references)

Spanish		ligero (agile, airy, double quick, facile, faint, fast, feathery, flippant, gentle, hasty, light, light-handed, lightly, lightweight, mild, quick, quickly, quiet, rakish, remote, springy, swift, thin, twinkling), no riguroso (flexibility, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome), flexible (detergent, exciting, flex, flexible, flexibly, flexile, floppy, limber, limp, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, resilient, slouch, soft, supple, whippy, yielding), ágil (able, adroit, agile, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references)

Swedish		smidig (ductile, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, slick, smooth, supple, whippy), böjlig (ductile, flexible, limber, limp, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, whippy). (various references)

Thai		โค้งงอได้ (lithesome). (various references)

Turkish		kıvrak (active, agile, limber, lissom, lissome, quick, strong, supple, tripping), esnek (elastic, flexible, flexile, limber, limp, loose-jointed, nonrigid, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, responsive, spring, springy, sprung, supple). (various references)

Ukranian		гнучкий (applicant, ductile, elastic, flexible, flexile, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple, versatile), зговірливий (appeasable, manageable, pliable, tractable, wilful, willful). (various references)

Vietnamese		uyển chuyển (free, slinky), mềm mại, dẽ uốn yểu điệu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lithe": lithely, lithemia, lithemias, lithemic, litheness, lithenesses, lither, lithesome, lithest. (additional references)
	Words ending with "lithe": blithe. (additional references)
	Words containing "lithe": blithely, blither, blithered, blithering, blithers, blithesome, blithesomely, blithest, slither, slithered, slithering, slithers, slithery, tallithes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lithe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cithe, Clytha, Elithie, Ilahi, Ilhu, ithe, i'the, laghe, Lahti, lanthe, lathi, leethe, lehti, lehto, Leithe, leth, liche, lidho, lihe, liht, lilhe, lilth, lilthe, Linha, lirh, litem, lith, lithed, lithes, Lithol, lithop, lithos, liths, litre, Litte, liuthe, lothe, lotho, Luhta, Luhti, luithe, luth, Luthce, luthien, lyeth, nithe, pithe, rithe, ritho, sithee, Xizhe. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lithe" (pronounced lī"th)
3	l ī" th	blithe.
2	-ī" th	tithe.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-t"
	-1 letter: elhi, heil, hilt, lite, tile.
	-2 letters: eth, het, hie, hit, lei, let, lie, lit, tel, the, tie, til.
	-3 letters: eh, el, et, he, hi, it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-t"
	+1 letter: blithe, eolith, halite, hilted, lither.
	+2 letters: blither, delight, eoliths, ethical, ethinyl, ethylic, halites, haplite, hatlike, heftily, heliast, hitless, holiest, hoplite, hostile, hotline, hutlike, hyalite, lathier, lecythi, leftish, lekythi, lichted, lighted, lighten, lighter, lithely, lithest, lithoed, luthier, neolith, philter, philtre, relight, sheltie, sleight, slither, techily, theelin, thimble, thirled, thistle, whistle, whitely, whittle.
	+3 letters: aerolith, alighted, anthelia, anthelix, atheling, athletic, bimethyl, blighted, blighter, blithely, blithers, blithest, chillest, chlorite, clothier, delights, dimethyl, earthily, eighthly, eldritch, eolithic, ethicals, ethinyls, ethnical, filthier, flichter, flighted, flitched, flitches, gilthead, glitches, halftime, haplites, heartily, hectical, hecticly, heliasts, helicity, helicopt, helilift, heliport, helistop, hellkite, helminth, helotism, hilliest, hiltless, holstein, holytide, hoplites, hostiles, hotelier, hotlines, hulkiest, hyalites, isopleth, klephtic, lathiest, lecithin, lecythis, lekythoi, letching, lightens, lighters, lightest, litharge, lithemia, lithemic, luthiers, megalith, methylic, mothlike, neoliths, penlight, philters, philtred, philtres, phyletic, phyllite, pithless, plighted, plighter, regolith, relights, rhyolite, shaliest, shelties, sleights, slighted, slighter, slithers, slithery, sulphite, teiglach, tetchily, theelins, thelitis, thetical, thiazole, thimbles, thirlage, thistles, tholepin, thrilled, thriller, thurible, tilefish, tithable, triethyl, whistled, whistler, whistles, whitefly, whittled, whittler, whittles, withheld, xenolith, zenithal.
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