lissome

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lis=some

CIDE DICTIONARY

lissome, a. [For lithesome.].

•  Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.  [1913 Webster]

  "Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand."  [1913 Webster]
•  Light; nimble; active.  Halliwell.

THESAURUS

lissome

adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding