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Definition of Graceful
1. Adjective. Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution.
Similar to: Elegant, Fluent, Fluid, Liquid, Smooth, Gainly, Gracile, Willowy, Lissom, Lissome, Lithe, Lithesome, Slender, Supple, Svelte, Sylphlike
Antonyms: Awkward
Derivative terms: Gracefulness
2. Adjective. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth.
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
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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