graceful
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
Example
“She is a graceful dancer.”
Other meanings
Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
“The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.”
Gradual and non-disruptive.
Antonyms
- clumsy
Related words
- graceful degradation
- gracefully
- gracefulness
- graceful shark
- nongraceful
- graceful pitta
- ungraceful
Word history
From Middle English "graceful".
Where this comes from
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