svelte
/svɛlt
/adjective
(Of a person) slender and elegant: she was svelte and sophisticated...
- Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
- It's amazing how I still manage to keep my svelte figure.
- I can now eat what I like and still have a svelte figure.
Origin
Early 19th century: from French, from Italian svelto.
Rhymes
- allegoricalness
- allegorise
- allegoriser
- allegorism
- allegorist
- allegoristic
- allegorization
- allegorize
- allegorizer
- allegory
- allegresse
- allegretto
- Allegri, Gregorio
- allegro
- allele
- all-electric
- all-electronic
- alleleu
- allelic
- allelic exclusion
- allelism
- allelochemic
- allelochemical
- allelomorph
- allelomorphic