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lissome

lissome is the alternative spelling of lissom.

Meaning of lissom

Adjective

lissom (comparative lissomer, superlative lissomest)

  1. Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.
    • Now, our country lads, [...] are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English.1824, Mary Russell Mitford, “A Country Cricket-match”, in Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, London: G[eorge] and W. B. Whittaker, […], →OCLC, page 147

Forms of lissome

comparativelissomer
superlativelissomest

Origin of lissome

See lissom.

Words formed from lissome

Questions about lissome

What is lissome the alternative spelling of?
Lissome is the alternative spelling of lissom.

Words near lissome in the dictionary

  1. lissoclinamide
  2. lissoclinamides
  3. lissoir
  4. lissoirs
  5. lissom
  6. lissome
  7. lissomely
  8. lissomeness
  9. lissomer
  10. lissomest
  11. lissomly

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