The Clue
Reedlike (7 letter answer)
The Answer
SLENDER
Tags
Notes
The answer SLENDER is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 750 puzzles.
Related Clues
Lean
Slight
Svelte
Tenuous
Thin
Willowy
Fat's opposite
Light and graceful
Like Twiggy
Like most models
Not Rubens's type
Having little force or validity
Not unlike a ballet dancer
Definition
SLENDER as an adjective:
1. (slender, slight, slim, svelte) = being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
2. (slender, thin) = very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
3. having little width in proportion to the length or height; "a slender pole"
4. (slender, slim) = small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"
5. (lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike) = moving and bending with ease