What part of speech is lithe?

Lithe can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. lithe is an adjective, not comparable.

Inflections

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • lithe 
    Not comparable
    Not comparable
  • Positive: lithe 
  • Comparative: Not comparable
  • Superlative: Not comparable

What does lithe mean?

Definitions

Adjective

lithe - moving and bending with ease

Verb

lithe - To go.
lithe - To become calm.
lithe - To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
lithe - To give ear ; attend; listen.
lithe - To listen to.

Noun

lithe - Shelter.

Examples of lithe

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Miss Virginia E. Otis was a little girl of fifteen, lithe and lovely as a fawn.
2. adj. Many a wayfarer upon the high road which ran by Ferrier's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in their minds as they watched her lithe, girlish figure tripping through the wheat-fields, or met her mounted upon her father's mustang, and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West.
3. adj. As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay.
4. adj. Mary has a lithe body.
5. adj. This ballerina has a lithe body.
6. adj. Swiftly, her lithe form darted through the forest paths until she reached the edge of the forest.
7. adj. When she had gone Mr. Harrison watched her from the window . . . a lithe, girlish shape, tripping lightheartedly across the fields in the sunset afterglow.
Sentence  
adj.
Miss Virginia E. Otis was a little girl of fifteen, lithe and lovely as a fawn.
Many a wayfarer upon the high road which ran by Ferrier's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in their minds as they watched her lithe, girlish figure tripping through the wheat-fields, or met her mounted upon her father's mustang, and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West.
As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay.
Mary has a lithe body.
This ballerina has a lithe body.
Swiftly, her lithe form darted through the forest paths until she reached the edge of the forest.
When she had gone Mr. Harrison watched her from the window . . . a lithe, girlish shape, tripping lightheartedly across the fields in the sunset afterglow.

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