twiglike
1
5.3
- adjective
- /ˈtwɪɡˌlaɪk/
- The model wore a dress that highlighted her twiglike frame, accentuating her tall and slender figure.
Examples
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Jiri glares at the twiglike novelist.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her very young, twiglike body was wrapped in an elaborate slinky skirt with a Lycra top that revealed a strip of bare midriff.
Fiction book (2002) -
There was also a dry cleaner and a shoe store where I could stick my bare feet on the metal plate of an X-ray machine, look through the rubber eyepiece, and see my green, twiglike, vaporous bones.
Fiction book (1998) -
The artist depicted a slender figure with twiglike limbs, blending elegantly into the forest background.
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She admired the twiglike branches of the bonsai tree, which gracefully arched towards the sky.
Synonyms
1
6.0
Very thin in a way that looks like a small branch
1
4.3
Thin and straight like a stick
1
4.3
Very thin and like a strand of hair
1
8.4
Long and thin like a small branch
Very thin and light, almost hard to see or hear
Antonyms
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Twiglike comes from twig, a small, thin branch, and the ending -like, which means 'similar to', so imagine something as thin as a little branch; that image explains why twiglike means 'thin or slender like a twig'.