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graceful
adjective
- characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant:
a graceful reply.
a graceful dancer;
a graceful reply.
Synonyms: lissome, lithe, limber
/ ˈɡreɪsfʊl /
adjective
- characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈgracefully, adverb
- ˈgracefulness, noun
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Other Words From
- grace·ful·ly adverb
- grace·ful·ness noun
- non·grace·ful adjective
- non·grace·ful·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
“He seemed so graceful and effortless the way he did the show,” Kimmel adds, “but there was so much about Johnny that I don’t think anybody living knows.”
Martha Stewart, the brand and the person, is graceful and ordered, like the gardens that give her life purpose.
With a metatheatrical nod and a graceful swap of a shawl, Auberjonois then plays the comedian for the majority of the piece.
Where Wayne’s Batman is lithe and graceful, The Penguin is awkward and rotund; while Wayne is charismatic, the Penguin is a weirdo, a quack.
Bulls are a symbol of virility and manhood in Hispanic culture, and the Bull — thick-built, hard-charging, yet graceful in his attack — manifested that fearsome animal through most of his career with the Blue Crew.