Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gracefully slender.
- adjective Graceful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slender; thin; hence, gracefully slight in form, development, or manifestation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Slender; thin.
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- adjective
Slender ,thin ,lean . - adjective
Graceful orgracefully slender .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective slender and graceful
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rather similar to 'Ingenia', though more gracile, is Conchoraptor gracilis.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine.
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But these next-gen sentients won't wander in from Africa, as the gracile Cro-Magnons did: They'll roll through the doors of artificial intelligence labs.
Seth Shostak: Today Jeopardy, Tomorrow the World Seth Shostak 2011
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The robust form populated the eastern island of Borneo and the gracile the western island of Sumatra.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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Slick, almost metallic surfaces; contrived elegance; serpentine lines and gracile bodies; cool but vibrant emotions - all the trademarks of Italian mannerism, on view in Gossart before it appears in Italian art.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Gossart (again) and mannerism Blake Gopnik 2010
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The Na'vi are basically ten-foot gracile blue furries, equipped, we are assured, with naturally-occurring carbon-fiber bones so they can do their wire-fu.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The robust P. pygmaeus, the more gracile and more upright P. abelii and a third, smaller terrestrial species that we today know as the orang pendek.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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The Na'vi are basically ten-foot gracile blue furries, equipped, we are assured, with naturally-occurring carbon-fiber bones so they can do their wire-fu.
Movie Review: Avatar 2009
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We do not know why this occurred but the more gracile Sumatran form, and the robust Bornean, separated.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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It's clear now that this lineage of theropods reaches back at least to the Late Jurassic, and that the smaller, more gracile predecessors of Tyrannosaurus lived alongside such classically Jurassic theropods as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus.
"When the world is a monster..." sovay 2008
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