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[ svelt, sfelt ] SHOW IPA
/ svɛlt, sfɛlt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective, svelt·er, svelt·est. slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
suave; blandly urbane.
Origin of svelte 1810–20; <French <Italian svelto <Vulgar Latin *exvellitus pulled out (replacing Latin ēvulsus, past participle of ēvellere ), equivalent to Latin ex- ex-1 + velli-, variant stem of vellere to pull, pluck + -tus past participle suffix
Words nearby svelte Svalbard, svarabhakti, svc., Svedberg, Svedberg unit, svelte , Svengali, Sverdlovsk, Sverdrup, Sverige, Svetambara
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Example sentences from the Web for svelte Growing up, Trainor was very self-conscious about her curves, often wishing she could be svelte like her high school friends.
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Instead, her au naturel dusting and vacuuming maintained her svelte figure.
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When the electro-induced trance subsides, a svelte , attractive brunette is revealed.
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Sure, their plump pariah son is now a svelte , BMOC, class president and (on paper) world-class polymath.
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Rachel Syme spoke to svelte kitchenmasters to find out how they eat and eat without gaining weight.
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The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte ” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.
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She is tall, slight, svelte : indeed, earth has not anything to show more fair.
Faith and Unfaith | Duchess
She is standing outside the dining-room door, with her lithe, svelte figure stooped forward a little.
Red as a Rose is She | Rhoda Broughton
Tall, svelte , and as far as Jacques Dantin could see, she was young.
The Crime of the Boulevard | Jules Claretie
The Duchess of Kimberley (Ruby), a svelte aquiline-nosed woman of some forty summers, with green hair and two aigrettes.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for svelte adjective attractively or gracefully slim; slender
urbane or sophisticated
Word Origin for svelte C19: from French, from Italian svelto, from svellere to pull out, from Latin ēvellere, from ex- 1 + vellere to pull
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Words related to svelte graceful, lithe, slender, lean, lissom, slinky, smooth, willowy, sylphlike