graceful
Syllables: grace·fulUK/ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/
graceful adjective: having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
Adjective
graceful (comparative more graceful, superlative most graceful)
- Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
- She is a graceful dancer.
- 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...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- airy
- 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.
- 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.2009, Dale Liu, Cisco Router and Switch Forensics
graceful meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
graceful in Hindi
- showing grace
- शोभनीय śobhnīya
graceful in Marathi
- graceful, refined, pure, and moral in appearance, manner, or character; possessing quiet dignity, decorum, and propriety
- सोज्वळ sojvaḷ
graceful in Urdu
- graceful
- سندر sundar
graceful in Bengali
- কমনীয়, লাবণ্যময়, মার্জিত
More languagesFewer languages
- graceful in Telugu
- రకము rakamu, కులుకు kuluku
- graceful in Malayalam
- രസകരമായ, രസഭൂയിഷ്ഠമായ, ലളിതമായ
- graceful in Kannada
- ಆಕರ್ಷಕವಾದ, ಸುಲಲಿತವಾದ, ವಿನಯಶೀಲ
- graceful in Odia
- ଶ୍ରୀଯୁକ୍ତ śrijukta, ଯୋଗ୍ୟ jogya
- graceful in Arabic
- رَشِيق rašīq, ظَرِيف ẓarīf, لَطِيف laṭīf, صُبَاح ṣubāḥ
- graceful in Persian
- باوقار bâ-vaqâr
Examples of graceful in a sentence
- The ballet dancer walked with a graceful attitude.
- Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
- Since we built the website with graceful degradation in mind, it will replace animations with textual cues if JavaScript is not available.
Synonyms of graceful
Antonyms
Forms of graceful
| comparative | more graceful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most graceful |
| alternative form (obsolete) | gracefull |
Origin of graceful
From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.
Words formed from graceful
Phrases with graceful
Questions about graceful
- What does graceful mean?
- Graceful means having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
- What is graceful in Hindi?
- Graceful in Hindi is शोभनीय (śobhnīya). See Graceful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is graceful?
- Graceful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce graceful?
- Graceful is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/ (UK).
Words near graceful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: graceful (page history and authors); सोज्वळ (Marathi) (page history and authors); سندر (Urdu) (page history and authors); graceful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కులుకు (Telugu) (page history and authors); graceful (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); graceful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଯୋଗ୍ୟ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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