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GRACEFUL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does graceful mean?

• GRACEFUL (adjective)
The adjective GRACEFUL has 2 senses:

1. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
2. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Familiarity information: GRACEFUL used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GRACEFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

Similar:

elegant (displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution)

fluent; fluid; liquid; smooth (smooth and unconstrained in movement)

gainly (graceful and pleasing)

gracile; willowy (slender and graceful)

lissom; lissome; lithe; lithesome; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike (moving and bending with ease)

Also:

beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)

elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)

Antonym:

awkward (lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Synonyms:

elegant; graceful; refined

Similar:

gracious (characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit)

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