Word Meanings - LITHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To listen or listen to; to hearken to. P. Plowman.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LITHE)
- Agile
- Nimble
- active
- fleet
- brisk
- alert
- lithe
- prompt
- ready
- quick
- supple
- nimble
- swift
- sprightly
- Flexible
- Pliant
- elastic
- easy
- indulgent
- ductile
- flexile
- yielding
- pliable
- Pliable
- limber
- like
- manageable
- facile
- pliant
- Supple
- bending
- flexible
- servile
- fawning
- cringing
- adulatory
- sycophantic
- compliant
Related words: (words related to LITHE)
- PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - CRINGLE
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - SUPPLEMENT
The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which - FAWNINGLY
In a fawning manner. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - LITHERLY
Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - QUICKBEAM
See TREE - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - PROMPTLY
In a prompt manner. - BRISK
1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick - BENDER
1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence. - QUICKSTEP
A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - PLIABLE
1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be - FLEET-FOOT
Swift of foot. Shak. - FLEETINGLY
In a fleeting manner; swiftly. - FLEETING
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - BLITHE
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe, - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - RETROACTIVE
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - OVERREADY
Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n. - REFRACTIVE
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction - UNELASTICITY
Inelasticity. - OUTFAWN
To exceed in fawning.