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Lithe and slender
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willowy
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Word definitions for willowy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Anastasia was willowy and graceful, with grey eyes and long, straight red hair. ▪ In contrast to Francesca, who was tall and willowy , Diana was small and curvy. ▪ Tania was tall and willowy with topaz eyes. EXAMPLES ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a person English) tall, slender and graceful 2 (context of a place English) having willow trees
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Willowy \Wil"low*y\, a. Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. --Gray. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. slender and graceful [syn: gracile ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flexible and graceful," 1791, from willow + -y (2). Earlier "bordered or shaded by willows" (1751). Willowish is older (1650s) but only in reference to the color of willow leaves. Related: Willowiness .
Usage examples of willowy.
She was dark and willowy, her fingers long and slender: far more the Belter stereotype than Alice Jordan.
Since just one female sat on the Mandarinate, the willowy beauty could only be Ting Mei Wan, Minister of State Security.
India Parr on stage: bewigged and rouged and costumed, a slight, willowy figure commanding almost as much space and men with as few words as Admiral Nelson had.
She moved with the willowy grace of a fifteen-year-old virgin, despite her sixty whorish years.
The willowy, boneless-looking and supremely beautiful Fellenian stretched its face into an angelic smile, then glanced down at the small metal chalice of fuming maha on the table in front of it.
Nick was so slender, nonmuscular, almost as willowy as convention would have a poet.
Sure, she was long and lean like most of them, but you could only describe her as willowy if you thought rebar swayed in light breezes.
Magazine, opened to display a sketch of a willowy damsel elegantly attired in a three-quarter dress of white sarsnet fastened down the centre with rosettes of pearls, and worn over a white satin petticoat.
The smallest of the three, a willowy brunette, and the tallest, a big muscular blonde, appeared to take their cues from the third woman, whose salt-and-pepper hair made her appear older.
Burly, early-balding Martin was an architect, and his spouse, Charlotte, willowy and auburn, was a senior secretary to an export-import firm called, uninventively, Exportim, which managed to sound like some Soviet trade bureau.
Like most of the Atlantean women Alexis had seen, she was tall, willowy, attractive and very blond.
On the way home he stopped at Vons to pick up some avocados -- he felt like guacamole -- and while lingering near the produce counter he noticed a curious willowy woman in gray sweats, squeezing the plump cassava melons, one by one.
She was about five-six, willowy, impeccably dressed in a simple, midnight-blue sheath that lovingly hugged every siliconed and liposuctioned curve and provided ample bare flesh on which to display the multitude of diamonds and sapphires she wore.
Her willowy ears and corkscrew antennae bestowed on her a vaguely mothlike aspect, though Nom Anor considered her a pest more on the magnitude of a radank.
Preposterous crabs and willowy nudibranchs wandered about, scavenging food and accomplishing necessary fish business.