Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | graceful, slender |
| Synonyms: | adroit, agile, dainty, delicate, elastic, elegant, flowing, limber, lithe, lithesome, nimble, pliant, shapely, skinny, springy, svelte, thin, trim |
| Main Entry: | graceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, charming, lovely |
| Synonyms: | adroit, aesthetic, artistic, balletic, beautiful, becoming, comely, controlled, curvaceous, dainty, decorative, delicate, dexterous, easy, elastic, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, flowing, handsome, harmonious, limber, lissome, lithe, natural, neat, nimble, pleasing, pliant, poised, practiced, pretty, refined, rhythmic, seemly, shapely, skilled, slender, smooth, springy, statuesque, supple, symmetrical, tasteful, trim, willowy |
| Notes: | graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit |
| Antonyms: | awkward, careless, graceless, inept, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy |
| Main Entry: | meager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, bare, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, hungry, lacking, lank, lanky, lean, lithe, little, narrow, rattleboned, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skin and bones, skinny, slender, slim, spare, starved, stinted, stunted, tenuous, underfed, wanting, willowy, withered |
| Antonyms: | big, fat, full, large, wide |
| Main Entry: | slender/slim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin, not heavy |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, beanpole, beanstalk, fine, insubstantial, lean, lithe, narrow, reedy, skeleton, skinny, slight, spare, stalky, stick, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, threadlike, trim, twiggy, willowy |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, heavy, overweight, plump, thick |
| Main Entry: | supple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, ductile, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, stretch, stretchy, svelte, willowy, wiry, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, stiff, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | svelte |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin and well-built |
| Synonyms: | graceful, lean, lissom, lithe, slender, slinky, smooth, sylphlike, willowy |
| Antonyms: | chubby, corpulent, fat, thick |
| Main Entry: | trim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shapely |
| Synonyms: | beautiful, clean, comely, fit, graceful, in fine fettle, in good shape, sleek, slender, slick, slim, statuesque, streamlined, svelte, well-balanced, well-proportioned, willowy |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, overweight |
| Main Entry: | slinky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleek |
| Synonyms: | graceful, serpentine, sinuous, smooth, willowy |
| Main Entry: | slender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | abstemious, acicular, aciculate, delicate, faint, feeble, fragile, frail, frugal, gracile, inconsiderable, lank, lanky, lean, lissome, lithe, lithesome, little, meager, minute, narrow, outside, plain, remote, scant, skinny, slight, slim, small, spare, spindling, svelte, tenuous, trim, trivial, weak, willowy, wiry, wispy |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
