lither
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- moving and bending with ease
Adj
- Lazy, slothful; listless.
- Flexible, supple; also, agile, lithe.
- Bad, evil; false.
- In poor physical condition.
- comparative form of lithe: more lithe
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lither, lyther (“deceitful; evil; false; treacherous; sinful, wicked; leading to cruelty, injustice, or wickedness, perverted; of a country: filled with wicked people; cruel, fierce; dangerous, deadly; frightening; grievous, painful; harmful, injurious; miserable, paltry, poor, worthless; feeble, sluggish; cowardly”) [and other forms], from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked; base, mean, wretched; corrupt”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“bad; dissolute; neglected; useless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, slack”).
Sense 1.2 (“flexible, supple; agile, lithe”) is influenced by lithe.
Cognates
Dutch lodder (“wanton person”), loddering (“drowsy; trifling; wanton”)
German liederlich (“dissolute”), German lotterig (“slovenly”), lüderlich (“slovenly”)
Old English loþrung (“delusion, rubbish, nonsense”), loddere (“beggar”)
Synonyms
bone-idle, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lissom, lissome, lithe, lither, lithesome, slender, slothful, sluggish, supple, svelte, swear, sylphlike, torpid, work-shy
Scrabble Score: 9
lither is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordlither is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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