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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing grace of movement, form, or proportion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by grace or elegance; displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant: used particularly of motion, looks, and speech: as, a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air.
- Having Christian grace or piety; in a state of grace.
- Synonyms Elegant, etc. (see
elegant ); easy, natural, unconstrained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having or showing
grace inmovement ,shape , orproportion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
- adjective suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Etymologies
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Examples
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He wrapped up crisis talking in Jordan by once again rejecting any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops and denying that he's searching for what he called a graceful exit from the war.
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John saw that he was _de trop_, that it was a family conference, and only extracting from Laramie a promise to see him -- about nothing whatever -- before leaving town he made what he termed a graceful getaway.
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'Ay; anybody can be what you call graceful, if he lives a little time in a city, and keeps his eyes open.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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The common terns have since left for the winter but Matteson said there is a good chance the birds, which he calls graceful and beautiful, will be back next year since they have already raised young here.
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Though "graceful" is a word one wouldn't readily apply to Stickley's cabinetry, there is a certain massive elegance to his lighting fixtures.
Four-Square Reformer Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010
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She says: This period saw the rise of the designer-craftsman movement, which was characterized by a graceful fluidity between the now distinct disciplines of design, manufacture, and studio art.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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She says: This period saw the rise of the designer-craftsman movement, which was characterized by a graceful fluidity between the now distinct disciplines of design, manufacture, and studio art.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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There are a few abstract symbols, but the site is almost covered in graceful, naturalistic sculptures and bas-reliefs of the animals that were central to the imagination of hunter-gatherers.
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She says: This period saw the rise of the designer-craftsman movement, which was characterized by a graceful fluidity between the now distinct disciplines of design, manufacture, and studio art.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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She says: This period saw the rise of the designer-craftsman movement, which was characterized by a graceful fluidity between the now distinct disciplines of design, manufacture, and studio art.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
Related Words
synonyms (147)
Words with the same meaning
- Attic
- Ciceronian
- Daedalian
- accommodating
- adept
- adroit
- aesthetic
- aesthetically appealing
- affable
- agile
- agreeable
- apt
- artistic
- attentive
- attractive
- authoritative
- beauteous
- beautiful
- bravura
- brilliant
- chaste
- civil
- civilized
- classic
- clean
- clear
- clever
- complaisant
- considerate
- coordinated
- courteous
- courtly
- crack
- crackerjack
- cultivated
- cultured
- cunning
- cute
- daedal
- 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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