sylphidic

From sylphid +‎ -ic.

• IPA^(key): /sɪlˈfɪdɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪdɪk

sylphidic (comparative more sylphidic, superlative most sylphidic)

1. Of or resembling a sylphid
   • 1911, A Guide Into the South‎^[1], page 33:

     I understand he inturbidates your sylphidic hopes with his intinerating influence by inturbidating my vows to you.

   • 1994, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940, page 252:

     A few lines from you would have erected a sylphidic bridge over the chasms that are part and parcel of any journey.

   • 1997, A History of European Folk Music, page 207:

     This was a woman no longer young, not beautiful, and certainly not sylphidic.

   • 2022, Why Art Criticism? A Reader‎^[2], page 400:

     These youths would have been called ephebic or even sylphidic at the humanist grammar schools of the time.