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Webster 1913 Edition


Graceful

Grace′ful

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Adj.
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance;
as, a
graceful
walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech
.
Grace′ful-ly
,
adv.
Grace′ful-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Graceful

GRA'CEFUL

,
Adj.
Beautiful with dignity; elegant; agreeable in appearance,with an expression of dignity or elevation of mind or manner; used particularly of motion, looks and speech; as a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air.
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus
rode.

Definition 2024


graceful

graceful

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graceful (comparative more graceful, superlative most graceful)

  1. Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      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 great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
    She is a graceful dancer.

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