What is a Lisome?

What is a Lisome?

Lissome describes people or things that are slender, flexible, light, and graceful. If you watch long, thin blades of grass swishing in the breeze, they look like lissome dancers with swaying arms and torsos.

What is a willowy?

1 : abounding with willows. 2 : resembling a willow: a : pliant. b : gracefully tall and slender a willowy actress.

What’s the definition of gangling?

: tall, thin, and awkwardly built : lanky, gangly He is a tall, rather gangling man, with straggly dark hair, a sort of misshapen handsomeness and a crinkly smile.—

What means barefaced?

1 : having the face uncovered: a : having no whiskers : beardless. b : wearing no mask.

How do you use lissome in a sentence?

Lissome in a Sentence 🔉

1. During the show, the lissome monkeys swung from one stand to another.
2. After a back injury Kent is no longer lissome so he is unable to participate in the wrestling match.
3. The lissome break dancers twisted and bent their bodies in a mesmerizing routine.

What is xantic?

adjective. of or relating to a yellow or yellowish color.

What does blundering mean in the dictionary?

to move or act blindly, stupidly, or without direction or steady guidance: Without my glasses I blundered into the wrong room. to make a gross or stupid mistake, especially through carelessness or mental confusion: Just pray that he doesn’t blunder again and get the names wrong.

What does barefaced liar mean?

A shameless falsehood. For example, Bill could tell a barefaced lie with a straight face. The adjective barefaced means “beardless,” and one theory is that in the 1500s this condition was considered brazen in all but the youngest males.

What do you call a person without makeup?

barefaced adjective (WITHOUT MAKEUP) She still looks like a teenager when she’s barefaced and ponytailed. I prefer a barefaced, natural look. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Make-up & skin care. aha.

What is meaning of fervid?

1 : very hot : burning. 2 : marked by often extreme fervor (see fervor sense 1) a fervid crusader fervid fans.

What does the word pristine?

1 : belonging to the earliest period or state : original the hypothetical pristine lunar atmosphere. 2a : not spoiled, corrupted, or polluted (as by civilization) : pure a pristine forest. b : fresh and clean as or as if new used books in pristine condition.

What is a xenophile person?

: one attracted to foreign things (such as styles or people)