graceful

Speech parts

1. graceful - Adjective

2. graceful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

refined elegant bonnie angelique thoroughbred adagio winsome christlike erato augustan comely goodly bonny elvish becoming
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Antonyms

awkward clumsy graceless brut dowdy barbarian
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Related terms

grace

Phrases with the word

graceful person someone graceful graceful handwriting graceful wood sedge graceful ruminant graceful bedstraw

Examples

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Malcolm Muggeridge

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. Henry James

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. Drew Barrymore

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. Christian Nestell Bovee

Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game. Jacques Plante

Close letter words and terms

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