adj Slender without being thin to excess.
- The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.
— David Foster Wallace, Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All (1997)
adj Able to bend and move easily.
- the elephant’s lithe trunk.
- Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither.
— Grant Allen, Arthur Conan Doyle (1900)
