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   lithe

   /lʌɪð/

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of a person's body) thin, supple, and graceful: "she lay gazing up at his tall, lithe figure"

   Word Origin Old Englishlīthe ‘gentle, meek’ also ‘mellow’, of Germanic origin; related to German lind ‘soft, gentle’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. lithely adverb
   • 2. litheness noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

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