Gracile

Quick meaning: Gracile is an adjective meaning (also figuratively) Lean, slender, thin.

Meaning

(also figuratively) Lean, slender, thin.

More Meanings

1. Graceful or gracefully slender.
2. (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.

Example Sentences

Maxillary palpi shorter than the antennæ, the terminal joint small, gracile, subulated; [...]

Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and from the folds of fine linen, bestrewn and impregnated with aromatics, you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of a goodly and venerable cat.

The cheetah's gracile, canid-like morphological features and the extremely fast sprint it uses to capture prey have fostered a popular mythology that the species is overly specialized and hence doomed to extinction [...].

I am helplessly addicted to this place, this wondrous geographic puzzle of canyons turning in on themselves, [...] of horizon-wide sweeps of sunlit emptiness and gracile unknown places where darkness hides and will not tell its name.

Synonyms for gracile

Depending on context, synonyms include gracilent, lithe, svelte, willowy, gaunt, lank.

Antonyms for gracile

Common opposites include robust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include graceful, willowy, australopithecine, australopithecines, small, clean-limbed.

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