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gracefull

gracefull is the obsolete form of graceful.

Meaning of graceful

Adjective

graceful (comparative more graceful, superlative most graceful)

  1. Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
    • She is a graceful dancer.
    Synonyms:
    airy
  2. Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
    • The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
  3. 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

Forms of gracefull

comparativemore gracefull
superlativemost gracefull

Questions about gracefull

What is gracefull the obsolete form of?
Gracefull is the obsolete form of graceful.

Words near gracefull in the dictionary

  1. graceful
  2. graceful degradation
  3. graceful pitta
  4. graceful shark
  5. graceful sharks
  6. gracefull
  7. gracefuller
  8. gracefullest
  9. gracefully
  10. gracefulness
  11. gracefulnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gracefull (page history and authors); graceful (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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