What is "graceful" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does graceful mean in English? Meaning of graceful definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "graceful" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "graceful": characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
  • Synonyms: graceful
  • Antonyms: awkward
  • Similar: elegant fluent fluid gainly gracile liquid lissom lissome lithe lithesome slender smooth supple svelte sylphlike willowy
  • Also see: beautiful elegant
  • Meaning of "graceful": suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

    Adjective

  • Meaning: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
  • Synonyms: elegant graceful refined
  • Similar: gracious
  • Adjective: Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar. She is a graceful dancer.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
  • Synonyms:

    beautiful, rhythmic, shapely, tasteful, limber, nimble, smooth, slender, elegant, decorative, lithe, neat, delicate, symmetrical, refined, supple, exquisite, handsome, adroit, aesthetic, artistic, becoming, comely, curvaceous, dainty, dexterous, easy, elastic, fair, fine, flowing, harmonious, lissome, natural, pleasing, pliant, practiced, pretty, seemly, skilled, springy, statuesque, trim, willowy, controlled, balletic, poised,

    Antonyms:

    unattractive, unsophisticated, rigid, uneven, inelegant, graceless, uncouth, ungraceful, homely, ugly, unrefined, stiff, awkward, coarse, irregular, rough, fat, crude, poor, careless, inept, unhandy, disproportioned,

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    graceful in English: graceful
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