Graceful

Quick meaning: Graceful is an adjective meaning Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
2. (computing) Gradual and non-disruptive.

Example Sentences

She is a graceful dancer.

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

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.

The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

Word Forms

• gracefull

Synonyms for graceful

Depending on context, synonyms include airy, lithe, gracious, refined, svelte, elegant.

Antonyms for graceful

Common opposites include graceless, clumsy, awkward.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include elegant, gracious, deft, gainly, refined, lissom.

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