Word Study
willowy
CIDE DICTIONARY
willowy, a.
- Abounding with willows. [1913 Webster]"Where willowy Camus lingers with delight." [1913 Webster]
- Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
willowy
adaptable, airy, attenuate, attenuated, bendable, bending, boyish, compliant, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ductile, elastic, ethereal, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flimsy, formable, formative, frail, gauzy, girlish, giving, gossamer, gracile, impressible, impressionable, insubstantial, lacy, light, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, misty, moldable, papery, plastic, pliable, pliant, rare, rarefied, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, springy, submissive, subtle, supple, susceptible, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tractable, tractile, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, whippy, wiredrawn, wispy, yieldingFor further exploring for "willowy" in Webster Dictionary Online