sylphlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.
Example Sentences
- "Soon advancing through the hall, he saw the sylphlike figure of the lovely Olympia […]"
- "[…] the thin robes Floating like light clouds ’twixt our gaze and heaven; The many-twinkling feet so small and sylphlike, Suggesting the more secret symmetry Of the fair forms which terminate so well—"
- "Arm's length from her he saw the sylphlike grace of her girlish body"
- "Once Tex had said to me, very sister-to-sister, “Aren’t we mad, we gay boys, starving ourselves to sylphlike fragility, all so we can attract a straight cop with a beer belly?”"
- "Here we see a few of the 48 diminutive hopefuls who showed up that day, awaiting their turn to impress the judges with a high instep or a particularly sylphlike extension."
Etymology
Etymology tree English sylph Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English sylphlike From sylph + -like.
Inflected Forms
more sylphlike (comparative)
most sylphlike (superlative)