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Definition of Sylphlike
1. Adjective. Moving and bending with ease.
Similar to: Graceful
Derivative terms: Lissomeness, Litheness, Slenderness, Suppleness
Definition of Sylphlike
1. a. Like a sylph; airy; graceful.
Definition of Sylphlike
1. Adjective. of or pertaining to a sylph ¹
2. Adjective. slender and graceful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sylphlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sylphlike
Literary usage of Sylphlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"A few years later, when her figure had already lost its sylphlike proportions,
Sir Gilbert Elliot wrote to his wife ( 6A"ov. ..."
2. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"There are three much vaunted and highly scientific diet systems, calculated to
render the surfeited sylphlike. They are all, in varying degree, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... not a little disgusted that sylphlike creature, and wreaked on her some measure
of punishment for the false pretences which had brought it upon her. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"As for Bernard, he helped her about the ship like a brother, as she moved lightly
around with her sylphlike little form among the ropes and capstans. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"A few years later, when her figure had already lost its sylphlike proportions,
Sir Gilbert Elliot wrote to his wife ( 6A"ov. ..."
6. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"There are three much vaunted and highly scientific diet systems, calculated to
render the surfeited sylphlike. They are all, in varying degree, ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... not a little disgusted that sylphlike creature, and wreaked on her some measure
of punishment for the false pretences which had brought it upon her. ..."
8. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"As for Bernard, he helped her about the ship like a brother, as she moved lightly
around with her sylphlike little form among the ropes and capstans. ..."
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