limbed
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6.4
- adjective
- /lɪmd/
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con extremidades
- He was lean-limbed and narrow-hipped.
- long-limbed
- loose-limbed
- limbed and graceful
Examples
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She was long-limbed and slender, clothed in a white gown that trailed to the floor and was gathered about her narrow waist.
Fiction book (1992) -
"A loose-limbed, floppy-haired 6-foot-5-inch guard with sagging gray socks as his trademark," as the New York Times described him, Maravich's style combined with his seemingly endless ability to score to turn the LSU guard into a folk hero.
Academic text (2014) -
Jack is tall, long-limbed, and bone-thin.
Fiction book (1993) -
Instead, we see the long-limbed, athletic, pretty, and collegiate Leslie.
Fiction book (2000) -
22. True, the demoiselles are thick-limbed and angular.
Academic text (1994) -
I was a lean-limbed, lanky little creature in those days, slender of foot and slim of hand, with green eyes under thick lashes.
Fiction book (1998) -
Patrick never missed a day of school, sitting quietly in his classes, frowning at his teachers who admired rather than liked him, a thin-limbed, lanky boy with a penetrating steely-blue stare.
Fiction book (1997) -
Some were tall and olive-skinned like the Fonsecas of Portugal, others dark and broad like their Kikuyu maternal ancestors, but all fine-limbed and adoring of their father.
Fiction book (1999) -
This one is looser-limbed, funnier... so, I imagine, is the middle book, "The Dead Yard," which I haven't read but which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the 12 best novels of 2006, along with works by Peter Abrahams, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy, and George Pelecanos.
Blog text (25) -
Joe jumped down from the truck bed, loose-limbed and young.
Synonyms
A thing with extra parts like arms or tentacles attached to the body
Antonyms
Compounds
How Many Limbs
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Limbed comes from the old English word limb, which meant an 'arm' or 'leg' and was also used for tree branches. So limbed means 'having limbs', and we use it for people, animals, or trees to show they have arms, legs, or branches, as in 'long-limbed'.