Graceful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Graceful \Grace"ful\, a.
     Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy;
     agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment,
     speaker, air, act, speech.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.
                                                    --Dryden.
     -- {Grace"ful*ly}, adv. {Grace"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  graceful
       adj 1: characterized by beauty of movement, style, form etc.; not
              awkward [ant: {awkward}]
       2: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: {elegant}, {refined}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "graceful":
     Attic, Ciceronian, Daedalian, accommodating, adept, adroit,
     aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agile, agreeable, apt,
     artistic, attentive, attractive, authoritative, beauteous,
     beautiful, bravura, brilliant, chaste, civil, civilized, classic,
     clean, clear, clever, complaisant, considerate, coordinated,
     courteous, courtly, crack, crackerjack, cultivated, cultured,
     cunning, cute, daedal, dainty, deferential, deft, delicate,
     dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, direct, discriminating, easy,
     elegant, endowed with beauty, excellent, expert, exquisite,
     eye-filling, facile, fair, fancy, fastidious, featly, fine,
     finished, fleet, flowerlike, flowing, fluent, fluid, good, goodish,
     gracile, gracious, handsome, handy, heavy, ingenious, light,
     light-footed, limpid, lissome, lithe, lovely, lucid, magisterial,
     mannerly, masterful, masterly, natural, neat, neat-fingered,
     neat-handed, nice, nimble, nimble-footed, no mean, obliging, peart,
     pellucid, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, polite, politic,
     pretty, professional, proficient, pulchritudinous, pure, quick,
     quite some, ready, refined, resourceful, respectful, restrained,
     round, simple, skillful, slick, smooth, solicitous, some,
     sophisticated, sprightly, spry, statesmanlike, straightforward,
     stylish, suave, subtle, supple, sure-footed, tactful, tasteful,
     terse, the compleat, the complete, thoughtful, trim, tripping,
     unaffected, unlabored, urbane, virtuoso, well-done, well-mannered,
     workmanlike