willowy
Tall and supple
Willowy describes something slender, graceful, and flexible—like a willow tree's branches.
The word almost always applies to people, especially women, suggesting a tall, thin figure that moves with natural elegance: a willowy dancer, her willowy frame.
The term carries positive connotations of gracefulness rather than mere thinness.
Elegant in movement
- refinedPurified or cultured
- poisedCalm and controlled
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
sophisticated · statuesque · lissome · flowing · fluid · balletic · dainty · slender
Able to bend freely
- pliantEasily bent or influenced
- swayingRhythmic lateral movement
- bendingCurving from straight
- yieldingBending under pressure
limber · bendable · sinuous · elastic · whippy · resilient · springy · flowing
svelte
Gracefully slender
lanky · sylphlike · graceful · thin · slight · rangy · spindly · gangly · narrow · wiry
graceful
Elegant in movement
ethereal · sophisticated · statuesque · lissome · flowing · fluid · balletic · dainty · slender · sinuous
flexible
Able to bend freely
yielding · limber · bendable · sinuous · elastic · whippy · resilient · springy · flowing · undulating
swaying
Rhythmic lateral movement
- flowingMoving continuously onward
- undulatingMoving in waves
- dancingRhythmic bodily motion
rippling · waving · fluttering · drifting · gliding · floating · billowing · wavering · rustling · trembling
weeping
Shedding tears audibly
osier · wicker · basketry · pollard · riverside · wetland · drooping · trailing · pendulous · arboreal
willowyrigid
Unable to bend
stiff · inflexible · unyielding · unbending · stiffened
- weeping willowTree with pendulous branches
- pussy willowShrub bearing soft catkins
- willow treeDrooping ornamental tree
- willow barkTree skin containing salicin
- willow branchesPliable tree limbs
- Wind in the WillowsEdwardian children's novel