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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  svelte
       adj 1: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that
              comes from wide social experience; "his polished
              manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
              [syn: {polished}, {refined}, {urbane}]
       2: gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome},


           {lissom}, {lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {sylphlike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "svelte":
     airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted,
     ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy,
     girlish, gossamer, gracile, insubstantial, lacy, light, misty,
     papery, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made,
     slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, sylphlike, tenuous, thin,
     thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague,
     wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy,
     wiredrawn, wispy
  
  

















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