lithe-bodied

1. 1.

   having a lithe body

   Similarbodied

Questions about lithe-bodied

What does lithe-bodied mean?

lithe-bodied means "having a lithe body".

How many syllables are in lithe-bodied?

lithe-bodied has 4 syllables and divides as li-the--bo-died under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is lithe-bodied a common word?

lithe-bodied is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.