Gracefully

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.
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           High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.
                                                    --Dryden.
     -- {Grace"ful*ly}, adv. {Grace"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gracefully
       adv 1: in a graceful manner; "she swooped gracefully" [ant: {gracelessly}]
       2: in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance
          to grow up graciously" [syn: {graciously}] [ant: {ungraciously},
           {ungraciously}]

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

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "gracefully":
     accommodatingly, aesthetically, artistically, attentively,
     becomingly, chivalrously, civilly, complacently, complaisantly,
     courteously, courtly, decently, decorously, deferentially,
     elegantly, gallantly, genteelly, graciously, in good taste,
     knightly, mannerly, obligingly, politely, properly, quietly,
     respectfully, seemly, simply, tastefully, unobtrusively, urbanely,
     with taste