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sylphish

sylphish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.

Adjective

sylphish (comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)

  1. (archaic) Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
    • All these on a neck of snow slight-tinged with rose-bloom, and within it royal Life: amidst the blaze of lustres ; in sylphish movements, espiegleries, coquetries, and minuet-mazes[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine

Forms of sylphish

comparativemore sylphish
superlativemost sylphish

Origin of sylphish

From sylph + -ish.

Questions about sylphish

What does sylphish mean?
Sylphish means resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
What part of speech is sylphish?
Sylphish is an adjective.

Words near sylphish in the dictionary

  1. sylphide
  2. sylphides
  3. sylphidic
  4. sylphids
  5. sylphine
  6. sylphish
  7. sylphlike
  8. sylphs
  9. sylphy
  10. Sylt
  11. Syltian

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