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Thesaurus: lissome

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.

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  1. a. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
  2. a. Light; nimble; active.
  3. adj. gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
  4. 1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson. 2. Light; nimble; active. Halliwell. -- Lis"some*ness, n.
  5. j:100 s. moving and bending with ease