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lissomer

lissomer is the comparative form of lissom.

lissomer is the comparative form of lissome.

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

Questions about lissomer

What is lissomer the comparative form of?
Lissomer is the comparative form of lissom.

Words near lissomer in the dictionary

  1. lissoirs
  2. lissom
  3. lissome
  4. lissomely
  5. lissomeness
  6. lissomer
  7. lissomest
  8. lissomly
  9. lissomness
  10. lissoneoid
  11. lissoneoids

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