English Dictionary

svelte

形容詞

Attractively thin; gracefully slender. / Refined, delicate.

日本語の意味

魅力的なほど痩せている、すらりとした体型 / 洗練された、上品な、繊細な

The svelte dancer moved across the stage with effortless grace.

ほっそりとしたダンサーは舞台を軽やかで優雅に移動した。

意味（1）

Attractively thin; gracefully slender.

Psychoanalytic theory […] seemed to promise to introduce a certain becoming amplitude into discussions of what different people are like — only to turn, in its streamlined trajectory across so many institutional boundaries, into the sveltest of metatheoretical disciplines, sleeked down to such elegant operational entities as the mother, the father, the preoedipal, the oedipal, the other or Other.

意味（2）

Refined, delicate.

Peering down from the cockpit at grazing elephant, you have the feeling that what you are beholding is wonderful, but not authentic. It is not only incongruous in the sense that animals simply are not as big as trees, but also in the sense that the twentieth century, tidy and svelte with stainless steel as it is, would not possibly permit such prehistoric monsters to wander in its garden.

svelter （ comparative ）

sveltest （ superlative ）