sylphlike
/'silflaik/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Gracefully slender and light in form: Describes a person, typically a woman, who is delicately thin, elegant, and moves with an easy, fluid grace.
- Resembling a sylph: A sylph is a mythological spirit of the air, imagined as a slender, graceful woman. "Sylphlike" suggests an ethereal, delicate, and almost otherworldly slimness and elegance.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The dancer had a sylphlike figure that captivated the audience.
- She moved through the crowd with sylphlike grace, barely seeming to touch the ground.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Can be used to describe objects or qualities that possess a delicate, light, and graceful quality.
- The building's sylphlike spires reached toward the sky.
- Her writing has a sylphlike quality, full of airy and delicate descriptions.
Variants and Related Words
- Sylph (n): A slender, graceful woman or girl; a mythological air spirit.
- She was a sylph in a white dress.
- Sylphid (n): A small or young sylph.
Synonyms
- Slender: Thin in an attractive way.
- Willowy: Tall, slender, and graceful.
- Lithe: Thin, supple, and graceful.
- Ethereal: Extremely delicate and light, seeming too perfect for this world.
Antonyms
- Stout: Rather fat or of heavy build.
- Stocky: Broad and sturdily built.
- Unwieldy: Moving in a clumsy, ungraceful way.
Adjective
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moving and bending with ease
