Ääntäminen
UK
- US also:
- nonstandard:
- compare lissom:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|
| bulgaria | гъвкав (gávkav) |
| hollanti | rustig, kalm, slank, soepel |
| japani | しんなり (shinnari) |
| latvia | slaids |
| ranska | calme, tranquille, svelte, élancé, agile, souple |
| ruotsi | lugn, smärt, smidig, böjlig |
| suomi | solakka, taipuisa, notkea, norja |
| tanska | smidig |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- (obsolete) Mild; calm.
- Slim but not skinny.
- Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
- Adaptable.
Verbi
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen, hearken.
- (archaic, dialect, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire) to thicken (gravy, etc.)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
- (transitive) To listen to, hearken to.
Substantiivi
- (Scotland) Shelter.
Esimerkit
- lithe weather
- lithe body
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
- So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
- He was of medium height, but very slender and lithe, and sat his horse with something of the air of a civilian.
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