Definition for Lissome:

• Light; nimble; active.

Synonyms for Lissome:

• adj.

  •agile and thin (adjective)
  • athletic,
  • limber,
  • graceful,
  • lithe,
  • flexible,
  • agile.
  •bendable (adjective)
  • supple.
  •graceful (adjective)
  • more aesthetic,
  • re fined,
  • most poised,
  • be-coming,
  • more balletic,
  • shapely,
  • most balletic,
  • more poised.
  •pliant (adjective)
  • more fictile,
  • most fictile.
  •slender (adjective)
  • in-considerable,
  • out side,
  • most gracile,
  • re-mote,
  • more gracile,
  • in considerable.
  •speedy (adjective)
  • more quickfire,
  • rapid fire,
  • more ultrasonic,
  • most supersonic,
  • more quick-fire,
  • ex press,
  • super sonic,
  • most quick fire,
  • head-long,
  • super-sonic,
  • more supersonic,
  • most harefooted,
  • most quick-fire,
  • rapidfire,
  • harefooted,
  • most ultrasonic,
  • more rapidfire,
  • ex-press,
  • ultra sonic,
  • most rapidfire,
  • most rapid-fire,
  • quickfire,
  • head long,
  • more rapid fire,
  • more quick fire,
  • more alacritous,
  • most quickfire,
  • more harefooted,
  • most rapid fire,
  • more rapid-fire,
  • quick fire,
  • most alacritous.
  •supple (adjective)
  • stretchiest,
  • stretchest,
  • stretchier.

• n.

  •
  • petite,
  • wiry,
  • willowy,
  • lean,
  • sinewy,
  • dainty,
  • trim,
  • spare.
  •svelte (noun)
  • svelte.
  •sylphlike (noun)
  • sylphlike.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • beautiful.

Antonyms for Lissome:

• adj.

  • agile and thin
    portly.
  • Other antonyms:
    bungling, rigid, ungraceful, inept, lumbering, klutzy, fragile, maladroit, brittle, inelastic, clumsy, awkward, breakable.

Lissome Sentence Examples:

• Her lissome figure had lost its gallantry, the fine poise that had given her a note of wild freedom.

• By the time she reached her thirtieth year, her delicate physique and fine skin, which the water of the tanks seemed to keep continually fresh and soft, her small, faintly - marked face and lissome limbs would probably become heavy, coarse, and flabby, till she would look like some faded saint that had stepped from a stained - glass window into the degrading sphere of the markets.

Homophones for Lissome:

• leucaemia, Lazy Susan, log-in, legion, lausanne, logania, Lushun, legin, lesion, logion, lasagne, look on, leukaemia, lay eyes on, logicism, legume, leukemia, louisiana, locum, ligne, lagune, lysozyme, liken, logan, lysogeny, laconian, liquaemin, ligan, lignum, like sin, lasagna, lichen, lycaena, lycian, log on, lysin, logomania, lucania, lycium, leukoma, luzon, log in, laguna, leucine, locoism, lysinemia, lignin, loxoma, lyceum, leccinum, loosen, lockman, laconia, lagoon, lysosome, lycaeon, louisianian, loose woman, lesson, loose cannon, leucoma, lucknow, lysine, lexeme, logjam, lacuna, lagan, lakshmi, lock in, lexicon, liegeman, luscinia, lessen, logician, liaison, laocoon, leishmania, louisianan, leucaena, lcm, lissom.