Definition of sylphlike in English:
sylphlike
adjectiveˈsɪlflʌɪkˈsɪlfˌlaɪk
(of a woman or girl) slender and graceful.
his arm curled around her sylphlike waist
Example sentencesExamples
- And sometimes those of us who are remarkably sylphlike wonder how anyone can get so fat.
- She was a sylphlike blonde, cold and lovely with a humorous closed-lipped smile that reminded him of Jeri's.
- I'll never be slim and sylphlike - but if there were a diet marketed that announced ‘lose weight and stop people walking into you’ then I'd be first on the sign-up list.
- His mission became tangible in 1999 with his sylphlike costar, Jean Butler, who co-produced and choreographed the evening-length production of an Irish epic retold in Dancing on Dangerous Ground.
- Growing up chubby with three sylphlike younger sisters, I was always in search of a quick fix to my weight problem.
- We're in the realm of the satin pointe shoe and the sylphlike ballerina, but any resemblance to floaty romanticism ends there.
Synonyms
slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, svelte, spare, slight
Definition of sylphlike in US English:
sylphlike
adjectiveˈsɪlfˌlaɪkˈsilfˌlīk
(of a woman or girl) slender and graceful.
his arm curled around her sylphlike waist
Example sentencesExamples
- I'll never be slim and sylphlike - but if there were a diet marketed that announced ‘lose weight and stop people walking into you’ then I'd be first on the sign-up list.
- His mission became tangible in 1999 with his sylphlike costar, Jean Butler, who co-produced and choreographed the evening-length production of an Irish epic retold in Dancing on Dangerous Ground.
- She was a sylphlike blonde, cold and lovely with a humorous closed-lipped smile that reminded him of Jeri's.
- We're in the realm of the satin pointe shoe and the sylphlike ballerina, but any resemblance to floaty romanticism ends there.
- Growing up chubby with three sylphlike younger sisters, I was always in search of a quick fix to my weight problem.
- And sometimes those of us who are remarkably sylphlike wonder how anyone can get so fat.
Synonyms
slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, svelte, spare, slight