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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Graceful \Grace"ful\, adjective Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- {Grace"ful*ly}, adverb {Grace"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
graceful
adjective
1: characterized by beauty of movement, style, form etc.; not awkward [ant: {awkward}]
2: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: {elegant}, {refined}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "graceful": Attic, Ciceronian, Daedalian, accommodating, adept, adroit, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agile, agreeable, apt, artistic, attentive, attractive, authoritative, beauteous, beautiful, bravura, brilliant, chaste, civil, civilized, classic, clean, clear, clever, complaisant, considerate, coordinated, courteous, courtly, crack, crackerjack, cultivated, cultured, cunning, cute, daedal, dainty, deferential, deft, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, direct, discriminating, easy, elegant, endowed with beauty, excellent, expert, exquisite, eye-filling, facile, fair, fancy, fastidious, featly, fine, finished, fleet, flowerlike, flowing, fluent, fluid, good, goodish, gracile, gracious, handsome, handy, heavy, ingenious, light, light-footed, limpid, lissome, lithe, lovely, lucid, magisterial, mannerly, masterful, masterly, natural, neat, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nice, nimble, nimble-footed, no mean, obliging, peart, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, pulchritudinous, pure, quick, quite some, ready, refined, resourceful, respectful, restrained, round, simple, skillful, slick, smooth, solicitous, some, sophisticated, sprightly, spry, statesmanlike, straightforward, stylish, suave, subtle, supple, sure-footed, tactful, tasteful, terse, the compleat, the complete, thoughtful, trim, tripping, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, virtuoso, well-done, well-mannered, workmanlike
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