sylphlike

Questions about sylphlike

What does sylphlike mean?

sylphlike means "(of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph".

How many syllables are in sylphlike?

sylphlike has 2 syllables and divides as sylph-like 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.

What is another word for sylphlike?

Close synonyms include sylphic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sylphlike a common word?

sylphlike 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sylphlike come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.