Graceful

adj

adj ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

    "She is a graceful dancer."

  2. 2
    Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.

    "The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators."

  3. 3
    Gradual and non-disruptive.

    "Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown."

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
elegantfluentgracilegraciousaccommodatingactive

Example

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"The spectators were moved by her graceful performance."

Etymology

From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.

Related phrases

graceful degradationgraceful pitta

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