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Lithe

To listen or listen to; to hearken to.

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Graceful 84% connected

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Graceful 84% connected

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Litheness 74% connected

The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Litheness 74% connected

The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Lissom 92% connected

Alt. of Lissome

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Lissome 92% connected

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lithesome 92% connected

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sinuous 92% connected

Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Supple 92% connected

Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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