Lithe

Adjective

 * 1)  Mild; calm.
 * lithe weather
 * 1) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
 * the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
 * 1) * 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
 * … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …

Synonyms

 * lithesome, lissome

Verb

 * 1)  To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

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

Etymology
From, from liþe:, from , from. Akin to Danish and German lind:, Icelandic linr:. Not attested in Gothic nor Old Norse. Some sources list also Latin lenis:, others Latin lentus:.

Adjective

 * Swedish: lugn


 * Dutch: soepel


 * French: souple

Anagrams

 * lieth, Theil