GRACEFUL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'greysful
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| Matching Terms: | | gracefully, gracefulness
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- [adj] characterized by beauty of movement, style, form etc.; not awkward
- [adj] suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
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| | Synonyms: | | deft, elegant, flowing, fluent, fluid, gainly, gracile, gracious, liquid, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, refined, slender, smooth, supple, svelte, sylphlike, willowy |
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| | Antonyms: | | awkward | | |
| | See Also: | | beautiful | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Grace"ful\, a.
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy;
agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment,
speaker, air, act, speech.
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.
--Dryden.
-- {Grace"ful*ly}, adv. {Grace"ful*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | accommodating, adept, adroit, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agile, agreeable, apt, artistic, attentive, Attic, attractive, authoritative, beauteous, beautiful, bravura, brilliant, chaste, Ciceronian, civil, civilized, classic, clean, clear, clever, complaisant, considerate, coordinated, courteous, courtly, crack, crackerjack, cultivated, cultured, cunning, cute, daedal, Daedalian, dainty, deferential, deft, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, direct, discriminating, easy, elegant, endowed with beauty, excellent, expert, exquisite, eye-filling, facile, fair, fancy, fastidious, featly, fine, finished, fleet, flowerlike, flowing, fluent, fluid, good, goodish, gracile, gracious, handsome, handy, heavy, ingenious, light, light-footed, limpid, lissome, lithe, lovely, lucid, magisterial, mannerly, masterful, masterly, natural, neat, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nice, nimble, nimble-footed, no mean, obliging, peart, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, pulchritudinous, pure, quick, quite some, ready, refined, resourceful, respectful, restrained, round, simple, skillful, slick, smooth, solicitous, some, sophisticated, sprightly, spry, statesmanlike, straightforward, stylish, suave, subtle, supple, sure-footed, tactful, tasteful, terse, the compleat, the complete, thoughtful, trim, tripping, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, virtuoso, well-done, well-mannered, workmanlike |
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