Definition of Graceful

1. Adjective. Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution.


2. Adjective. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth.
Exact synonyms: Elegant, Refined
Similar to: Gracious
Derivative terms: Elegance

Definition of Graceful

1. a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

Definition of Graceful

1. Adjective. Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graceful

1. having beauty of form or movement [adj -FULLER, -FULLEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graceful

graben
grabens
grabfest
grabfests
grabs
grac't
grace-cup
grace and favour
grace cup
grace note
grace notes
grace of God
grace period
graced
graceful (current term)
gracefull
gracefuller
gracefullest
gracefully
gracefulness
gracefulnesses
graceless
gracelessly
gracelessness
gracelessnesses
graces
gracias
gracilariid
gracilariid moth

Literary usage of Graceful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Coarse pottery covered with a fine white silicious sort of pottery with most graceful and delicate designs touched on with a fine brush over a white enamel ..."

2. English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald (1914)
"graceful commonly suggests motion or the possibility of motion ; beautiful may apply to absolute fixity; a landscape or a blue sky is beautiful, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The spires, as already said, are octagonal in shape; a gallery runs around the eight sides near the top, upon which rest the graceful points of the conical ..."

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