willowy
/ˈwɪləʊi
/adjective (willowier, willowiest)
1Bordered, shaded, or covered by willows: willowy meadow land...
- Breathe wisteria, lavender, lobelia as you wander willowy riverbanks.
- Then we descended through open willowy meadows with beautiful views of the mountains, following a stream.
2(Of a person) tall, slim, and lithe: a beautiful willowy blonde...
- His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
- But age only added dignity and grace to her still slim and willowy figure.
- Her tall, willowy figure with its slight hour-glass shape was the envy of all women who had seen her.
Synonyms
tall, slim, slender, lean, svelte, lissom, sylphlike, snake-hipped, rangy, long-limbed, clean-limbed, graceful, lithe, loose-limbed
informal slinky
rare gracile, attenuate
Rhymes
- radiodiagnostic
- radiodiagnostics
- radio dial
- radio direction finder
- radio direction finding
- radio dish
- radioecological
- radio-ecologist
- radioecology
- radio edit
- radio-element
- radio emission
- radio energy
- radio engineer
- radio engineering
- radioenzymatic
- radio fade-out
- radio frequency
- radio galaxy
- radiogenetical
- radiogenetics
- radiogenic
- radiogenically
- radiogoniometer
- radiogoniometric