Synonyms of the word svelte


SVELTEGRACEFUL - LEAN - LISSOM - LISSOME - LITHE - LITHESOME - POLISHED - REFINED - SLENDER - SLIGHT - SLIM - SOPHISTICATED - SUPPLE - SYLPHLIKE - THIN - URBANE

svelte

  • adj. Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
  • adj. Refined, delicate.

graceful

  • adj. Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

lean

  • v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  • v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
  • v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
  • v. To hang outwards.
  • v. To press against.
  • n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
  • adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
  • adj. (of meat) having little fat.
  • adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  • adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  • adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
  • adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
  • v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
  • v. To conceal.
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

lissom

  • adj. Alternative form of lissome.

lissome

  • adj. lithe; quick and graceful in movement.

lithe

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mild; calm.
  • adj. slim but not skinny.
  • adj. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen.
  • v. (transitive) To listen to.
  • n. (Scotland) Shelter.

lithesome

  • adj. Lithe.

polished

  • adj. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
  • adj. Refined, elegant.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of polish.

refined

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of refine.
  • adj. Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly.
  • adj. Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly.
  • adj. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly.
  • adj. (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
  • n. (finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.

slender

  • adj. Thin; slim.
  • adj. (figuratively) meagre; deficient.
  • adj. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

slight

  • adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
  • adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
  • adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
  • adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
  • adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
  • v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
  • v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
  • v. To act negligently or carelessly.
  • v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
  • v. To make even or level.
  • v. To throw heedlessly.
  • n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
  • n. (obsolete) Sleight.

slim

  • adj. Slender, thin.
  • adj. (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
  • adj. (rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
  • adj. (South Africa) Sly, crafty.
  • n. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
  • n. (East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
  • v. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

sophisticated

  • adj. Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
  • adj. Elegant, refined.
  • adj. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
  • adj. Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
  • adj. (obsolete, Britain) Dishonest or misleading.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate.

supple

  • adj. pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
  • adj. lithe and agile when moving and bending.
  • adj. compliant; yielding to the will of others.
  • v. To make or become supple.
  • v. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

sylphlike

  • adj. Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.

thin

  • adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  • adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  • adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  • adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
  • adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
  • adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
  • adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
  • n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
  • n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
  • v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
  • v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
  • v. To dilute.
  • v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
  • adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

urbane

  • adj. (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.

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