• a b
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing
  • Mobile apps
  • Help
  • ©2017 EdictFree.
    All Rights Reserved.
Vocabulary
  • Topic
Help
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy policy
Mobile apps
  • Android
  • Ios
Bright
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
    • Topic
  • Writing

Free Online Dictionary

The home of living English, with more than 820,000 words, meanings and phrases
All Properties select
District 1 District 2 District 7 More

Longman Dictionary English

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwillowywil‧low‧y /ˈwɪləʊi $ -loʊi/ adjective THIN PERSONtall, thin, and graceful She was pale and willowy, with violet eyes.
Examples from the Corpus
willowy• She need not be beautiful in the traditional sense of Anglo-Saxon beauty: tall, blond and willowy.• Anastasia was willowy and graceful, with grey eyes and long, straight red hair.• Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.• In contrast to Francesca, who was tall and willowy, Diana was small and curvy.• It consisted of a willowy double branch of a tree.• Outside, a fair, willowy girl and a heavy-set woman in white were walking across the lawn.• Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.• Blonde Patsy, who is eight months pregnant, looked a far cry from the willowy screen siren bedded by Mel Gibson.• She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.• Tania was tall and willowy with topaz eyes.• But not a willowy woman, rather an outright presence.
ldoceonline.com
Word of day

May 21, 2025

castanets
noun ˌkæstəˈnets
Ad
Mobile apps

Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

Follow
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Find Out More
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree