svelt

Adjective

svelte (comparative svelter, superlative sveltest)

1. Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
   • Psychoanalytic theory[…]seemed to promise to introduce a certain becoming amplitude into discussions of what different people are like — only to turn, in its streamlined trajectory across so many institutional boundaries, into the sveltest of metatheoretical disciplines, sleeked down to such...1990, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, published 2008, page 24

   Synonyms:

   lithe

2. Refined, delicate.
   • Peering down from the cockpit at grazing elephant, you have the feeling that what you are beholding is wonderful, but not authentic. It is not only incongruous in the sense that animals simply are not as big as trees, but also in the sense that the twentieth century, tidy and svelte with stainless...1942, Beryl Markham, West with the Night

   Synonyms:

   elegant, gentle