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sylphidic

/sɪlˈfɪdɪk/

sylphidic adjective: of or resembling a sylphid.

Adjective

sylphidic (comparative more sylphidic, superlative most sylphidic)

  1. Of or resembling a sylphid
    • I understand he inturbidates your sylphidic hopes with his intinerating influence by inturbidating my vows to you.1911, A Guide Into the South, page 33
    • A few lines from you would have erected a sylphidic bridge over the chasms that are part and parcel of any journey.1994, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940, page 252

Examples of sylphidic in a sentence

  • This was a woman no longer young, not beautiful, and certainly not sylphidic.1997, A History of European Folk Music, page 207:
  • These youths would have been called ephebic or even sylphidic at the humanist grammar schools of the time.2022, Why Art Criticism? A Reader, page 400:

Forms of sylphidic

comparativemore sylphidic
superlativemost sylphidic

Origin of sylphidic

From sylphid + -ic.

Words that rhyme with sylphidic

Questions about sylphidic

What does sylphidic mean?
Sylphidic means of or resembling a sylphid.
How do you use sylphidic in a sentence?
This was a woman no longer young, not beautiful, and certainly not sylphidic.
What part of speech is sylphidic?
Sylphidic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sylphidic?
Sylphidic is pronounced /sɪlˈfɪdɪk/.

Words near sylphidic in the dictionary

  1. sylph
  2. sylphic
  3. sylphid
  4. sylphide
  5. sylphides
  6. sylphidic
  7. sylphids
  8. sylphine
  9. sylphish
  10. sylphlike
  11. sylphs

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