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Lite vs Lithe - What's the difference?

lite | lithe |

As verbs the difference between lite and lithe

is that lite is while lithe is (obsolete) to go or lithe can be (obsolete) to become calm or lithe can be (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen.

As an adjective lithe is

(obsolete) mild; calm.

As a noun lithe is

(scotland) shelter.

lite

English

(wikipedia lite)

Etymology 1

Variation of

Adjective

(-)
  • Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.:
    • His lite''' dinner consisted of crackers, some broccoli and a salad with ' lite ranch dressing.
  • Lightweight
    • ''My favorite color is lite blue!
  • (usually, used postpositively) Lacking substance or seriousness.
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    • Derived terms
    * marriage lite

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lit,

    Noun

    (-)
  • (British, dialect) A little, bit.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, dialect) few; little

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (lit)
  • (British, dialect) To expect; wait.
  • (British, dialect) To rely.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, dialect) The act of waiting; a wait.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    lithe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To go.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Mild; calm.
    • ''lithe weather
  • slim but not skinny
    • lithe body
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    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
  • Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
    • the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
  • * 1861 , , page 125
    • … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
    Synonyms
    * lithesome, lissome,

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) To become calm.
  • (obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (lith)
  • (obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.
  • To listen to.

    • Etymology 5

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) Shelter.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
    • So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

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