Adjective: lithy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lithy |
| Superlative | most lithy |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like lithy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English lethi, from Old English liþiġ (“free, unrestrained, flexible”), from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz; equivalent to lith (“limb, joint”) + -y. Cognate with Dutch ledig, German ledig, Swedish ledig, Icelandic liðugur. See: Dutch Adjectives '
ledig', German Adjectives '
ledig', Swedish Adjectives '
ledig'.