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{
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},
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}
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{
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"3": "līþe",
"4": "",
"5": "gentle, mild"
},
"expansion": "Old English līþe (“gentle, mild”)",
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
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{
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"name": "der"
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{
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"3": "*lentos"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *lentos",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "lied",
"3": "",
"4": "thin, skinny, gaunt"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian lied (“thin, skinny, gaunt”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "lind",
"3": "",
"4": "mild"
},
"expansion": "lind (“mild”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "lenis",
"t": "soft"
},
"expansion": "Latin lenis (“soft”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "lentus",
"t": "supple"
},
"expansion": "Latin lentus (“supple”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English lithe, from Old English līþe (“gentle, mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lentos. Akin to Saterland Frisian lied (“thin, skinny, gaunt”), Danish, Dutch, and archaic German lind (“mild”). Some sources also list Latin lenis (“soft”) and/or Latin lentus (“supple”) as possible cognates.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lither",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "lithest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"expansion": "lithe (comparative lither, superlative lithest)",
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"pos": "adj",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "-inda"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "lind"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "linden"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "Linda"
}
],
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{
"text": "lithe weather",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Mild; calm."
],
"id": "en-lithe-en-adj-DqADAFAy",
"links": [
[
"Mild",
"mild"
],
[
"calm",
"calm"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Mild; calm."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "clement"
},
{
"word": "gentle"
},
{
"word": "mellow"
}
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lek",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "лек"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "kalm"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "rustig"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "ruhig"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "mild"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "calmo"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "tranquilo"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "mild, calm",
"word": "lugn"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "lithe body",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group",
"text": "The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Slim but not skinny."
],
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"links": [
[
"Slim",
"slim"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lithesome"
},
{
"word": "lissome"
},
{
"word": "swack"
},
{
"word": "slender"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stroen",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "строен"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "slank"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "solakka"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "svelte"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "élancé"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "schlank"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "scaoilte"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "slaids"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "smärt"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 81 5 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "slim",
"word": "slank"
}
]
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"examples": [
{
"text": "the elephant’s lithe trunk.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125",
"text": "… she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …"
},
{
"ref": "1900, Grant Allen, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter VIII, in Hilda Wade",
"text": "Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Capable of being easily bent; flexible."
],
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[
"flexible",
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{
"word": "pliant"
},
{
"word": "flexible"
},
{
"word": "limber"
},
{
"word": "flexible"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gǎvkav",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "гъвкав"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podvižen",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "подвижен"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "ohebný"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "pružný"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "soepel"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "notkea"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "taipuisa"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "norja"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flexible",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "souple"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "elastisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "hajlékony"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "ruganyos"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "scaoilte"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "ligthe"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "moruki"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "smidig"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 6 82 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flexible",
"word": "böjlig"
}
]
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"ref": "2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.",
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"Adaptable."
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"adaptable"
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"ipa": "/laɪð/"
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{
"ipa": "/laɪθ/"
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"ipa": "/lɪθ/"
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{
"rhymes": "-aɪð"
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"name": "der"
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"3": "",
"4": "to alleviate, ease, relieve"
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"To become calm."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To become calm."
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"ref": "a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven",
"text": "England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure",
"text": "Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate."
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[
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[
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"(transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate."
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"transitive"
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"ipa": "/laɪð/"
},
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"ipa": "/laɪθ/"
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"ipa": "/lɪθ/"
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{
"rhymes": "-aɪð"
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"4": "to listen"
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen, hearken."
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"To listen to, hearken to."
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"(transitive) To listen to, hearken to."
],
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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}
],
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"etymology_text": "Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of lewth.",
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