Lithe vs. Skinny — What's the Difference?

Lithe is an experimental programming language created in 1982 by David Sandberg at the University of Washington which allows the programmer to freely choose their own syntax. Lithe combines the ideas of syntax-directed translation and classes in a novel manner that results in a remarkably simple yet powerful language.

Having very little bodily flesh or fat, often unattractively so; very thin.

Readily bent; supple

(informal) thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).

Marked by effortless grace

Having reduced fat or calories.

(obsolete) Mild; calm.

Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).

Slim but not skinny.

(of clothing) tight-fitting

Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

(golf) thin

Adaptable.

(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

To become calm.

A state of nakedness; nudity.

To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

(informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.

To attend; listen, hearken.

(nonstandard) A skinny being.

(transitive) To listen to, hearken to.

(transitive) To reduce or cut down.

(Scotland) Shelter.

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.

To listen or listen to; to hearken to.

Confidential information about a topic or person;

To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

Having unattractive thinness;

Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.

Gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease