sylphs
Slender graceful women
Sylphs are slender, graceful spirits of the air in Renaissance and later mythology—invisible beings inhabiting the atmosphere.
The word now describes any slender, graceful woman or girl: She moved like a sylph across the stage.
The adjective sylphlike captures this quality of ethereal delicacy.
Tiny mythical winged creatures
- spritesTiny supernatural beings
- nymphsMinor female nature deities
- faeOtherworldly Celtic beings
- pixiesTiny folklore troublemakers
dryads · nature spirits · folklore · Ariel · Shakespeare · winged · gossamer · enchanted
Gaseous envelope surrounding Earth
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- elementalsSpirits of natural forces
- gnomesMythical earth-dwelling dwarfs
- salamandersTailed amphibians, often aquatic
wind · atmosphere · zephyr · breeze · ether · aether · incorporeal · invisible
One who moves rhythmically
- gracefulElegant in movement
- litheSupple and graceful
- slenderThin and graceful
- willowyTall, slim, pliant
delicate · ethereal · romantic ballet · tutu · pointe · weightless · floating · diaphanous
fairies
Tiny mythical winged creatures
pixies · dryads · nature spirits · folklore · Ariel · Shakespeare · winged · gossamer · enchanted · otherworldly
air
Gaseous envelope surrounding Earth
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- elementalsSpirits of natural forces
- gnomesMythical earth-dwelling dwarfs
salamanders · wind · atmosphere · zephyr · breeze · ether · aether · incorporeal · invisible · guardians
dancer
One who moves rhythmically
willowy · delicate · ethereal · romantic ballet · tutu · pointe · weightless · floating · diaphanous · fluid
waif
Abandoned, neglected child
slight · dainty · elfin · svelte · slim · petite · fragile · gossamer · featherlight · nimble
- elementalsfire elemental, water elemental, elemental, elemental beings, undine
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- Faeriesfairy, fairies, fae, faerie, fey
- French folkloreGargantua, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Charles Perrault
- minor deitiesgodlings, demigods, household gods, Lares, penates
- Wind DeitiesAeolus, wind god, Venti, east wind, west wind
sylphsgnomes
Mythical earth-dwelling dwarfs
earth spirits · water spirits · salamanders · fire spirits · naiads