Definitions for lithe

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Spelling: [lahyth]
IPA: /laɪð/

Lithe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in lithe (ehilt).

Definitions for lithe

adjective

  1. bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible:

Origin of lithe

before 900; Middle English lith(e), Old English līthe; cognate with Old Saxon līthi, German lind “mild,” Latin lentus “slow”

Examples for lithe

She struck him, kicked and twisted with all her splendid, lithe strength, but it was in vain.

He got to his feet with lithe swiftness of movement, and sprang close to the desk.

She was a lithe, strong woman, taller than he, or else she would have fallen.

He wanted to be lithe and smooth and lightly airborne, working on his break dancing until he could make himself appear to flow.

Yet there were no pictures of Harry in his swimming trunks being kissed by lithe beauties on Ipanema Beach this week.

There was a lithe alertness in the woman that puzzled Lenyard.

The Fishermen, like thieves, shake out their silver,/ the lithe knives wriggle on the drying sand.

The fact is that Putin has never publically acknowledged his rumored relationship with the lithe, bendable Kabaeva.

She was in riding costume and was bending a lithe whip in her gloved hands.

Who was that lithe, bendable gymnast setting alight the Olympic flame?

Word Value for lithe
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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