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
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