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Main Entry:	graceful [greys-fuhl] Show IPA/ˈgreɪsfəl/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	agile, charming, lovely
Synonyms:	adroit, aesthetic, artistic, balletic, beautiful, becoming, comely, controlled, curvaceous, dainty, decorative, delicate, dexterous, easy, elastic, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, flowing, handsome, harmonious, limber, lissome, lithe, natural, neat, nimble, pleasing, pliant, poised, practiced, pretty, refined, rhythmic, seemly, shapely, skilled, slender, smooth, springy, statuesque, supple, symmetrical, tasteful, trim, willowy
Notes:	graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit
Antonyms:	awkward, careless, graceless, inept, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy

Main Entry:	artistic
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	beautiful, satisfying to senses
Synonyms:	aesthetic, creative, cultivated, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, pictorial, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, rhythmical, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful
Antonyms:	distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly

Main Entry:	beautiful
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	physically attractive
Synonyms:	admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful*, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, sightly, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful
Antonyms:	disgusting, grotesque, hideous, homely, offensive, plain, repulsive, ugly, unattractive

* = informal/non-formal usage

Example Sentences

Tan's graceful illumination of the thinking and sensibilities of.

Brown's graceful prose and a thoroughness in reporting that enabled her to write with authority on a range of subjects.

Robinson was as graceful outside the ring as he was brutally efficient inside it.

Tan's graceful illumination of the thinking and sensibilities of.

Brown's graceful prose and a thoroughness in reporting that enabled her to write with authority on a range of subjects.

Robinson was as graceful outside the ring as he was brutally efficient inside it.

Leopards are graceful and powerful big cats closely related to lions, tigers, and jaguars.

Some see power-generating wind farms as eyesores, others as graceful additions to the landscape.

Fascinated by the graceful gliding of these mammals with.

G rown for their graceful clumps of arching foliage and airy clouds of flowers.

Bold, yet graceful strokes of red, black and yellow give the sense of a herd in motion.

It was not a complex wine, but it was graceful and relaxed, seemingly effortless.

Secondly, if you do decide to leave, the main thing is a graceful transition.

His book is a patient, graceful unfurling of these truths.

Thick-billed murres are clumsy in the air, but incredibly graceful underwater.

Unlike their more graceful cousins, the primitive frogs kept their back legs straight out after they jumped.

Its imposing yet graceful ruins are made of stones and columns so heavy that no one has figured out how it was built.

T hese graceful shrubs with arching branches are cultivated for their pleasing fruit display.

Graceful swimmers slice through the water in glittering pools.

Swift and graceful they skim in from nearby resorts to city piers.

Find a graceful way to answer the question that you feel comfortable with and forget about whether it is legal or not.

Winding down the flank of the mountain, there is a graceful fluttering in the woods off to the side of the road.

Vienna porcelain is famous for its delicate and graceful shape.

Populations tend to crash rather than reach a graceful equilibrium.

Incredibly promising news for a truly graceful species.

Effective against background of dark green shrubs or at end of pool where graceful form can be displayed.

The dinosaur came with a graceful motion and a wicked ability to respond to human interaction that made it seem almost real.

To others, pigeons are the noble descendants of the graceful birds whose vast.

It is always good form to be graceful about these things.

Conservators therefore have little idea whether to expect a graceful decline or a rapid collapse.

Both have flippers that resemble paddles, which make them powerful and graceful swimmers.

If action is called for, then it is more graceful and efficient.

Graceful wisteria clusters frame the new lawn area created by the rock outcroppings.

California, where he translates computer specs into the graceful warps and bends of cold hard metal.

One moment you are watching graceful and personable young.

After helping them work out all the math, the reaction is usually silence followed by a graceful return to their seat.

Many of the graceful strokes from the master's pen have left the letter full of tiny slashes.

If you observe these creatures, however, snakes are often graceful and spiders fascinating.

It had little character, felt closed off from its setting, and lacked a graceful approach to the front door.

The graceful design blends form and function, creating a flexible, portable product.

His pain over, the world can finally mourn him and honor the kind and graceful years he shared with us all.

For his own sake, the pity is that he didn't make a swift and graceful exit.

Although this case is unique, it helps illustrate why these graceful creatures command extreme caution and respect.

On the other hand, the slender bones of the skull and flipper suggest a more graceful profile.

Both of these tropical species are rather tender, small to medium-size feather palms with graceful foliage and attractive trunks.

It's much more graceful than it sounds, and a cool detail.

It was graceful yet well flavored and lacked nothing, except for unbridled power and amplitude.

Enjoy a gallery of images celebrating this graceful and majestic waterfowl.

More graceful in detail than in entirety but can be trained to an interesting pattern.

We tended to rate the lighter-bodied, more graceful wines above the heavier, denser wines.

The manta ray is a graceful swimmer, cruising the world's temperate and tropical waters by flapping.

And the graceful plant rarely needs staking?it's a good choice.

We will miss her graceful presence, and send to her entire family our heartfelt condolences.

But a less than mythic appearance is balanced by the graceful way in which dugongs navigate their aquatic environment.

For more graceful plant, cut back when young to force multiple trunks.

Although the image has great light and the curves make for a graceful composition, it's not complete without the motorcycle.

Graceful branches hang down, often to ground, and are covered with double rose pink flowers at mid season.

Perfectly smooth stones, without keels, might curl about in a graceful arc.

Its graceful high arc provides easy clearance for pot filling or cleaning large items.

Graceful in water, hippos are good swimmers and can hold.

The hammock's design brings to mind a graceful sailing ship that has come into the harbor of a tropical paradise.

These graceful ornaments are handmade using centuries-old cloisonné techniques.

They also have colorful robes with long, graceful sleeves.

The mountains are vestiges of ancient eroded seabeds that support graceful bamboo groves and terraced rice.

What goes in must come out, but rarely does animal waste look so graceful.

Main Entry:	becoming
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	flattering
Synonyms:	acceptable, agreeable, attractive, beautiful, comely, cute, effective, enhancing, excellent, fair, graceful, handsome, neat, nice, presentable, pretty, seemly, tasteful, welcome, well-chosen
Antonyms:	indecorous, tasteless, ugly, unattractive, unbecoming, unfitting, unsuitable

Main Entry:	charming
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	captivating
Synonyms:	absorbing, alluring, amiable, appealing, attractive, bewitching, charismatic, choice, cute, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, desirable, electrifying, elegant, enamoring, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, eye-catching, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, infatuating, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, lovely, magnetizing, nice, pleasant, pleasing, provocative, rapturous, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sweet, tantalizing, tempting, titillating, winning, winsome
Antonyms:	frightening, irritating, offensive, repellent, repulsing, repulsive, terrifying

Main Entry:	clean
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not dirty; uncluttered
Synonyms:	apple-pie order, blank, bright, cleansed, clear, delicate, dirtless, elegant, faultless, flawless, fresh, graceful, hygienic, immaculate, laundered, neat, neat as a button, neat as a pin, orderly, pure, sanitary, shining, simple, snowy, sparkling, speckless, spic and span, spotless, squeaky, stainless, taintless, tidy, trim, unblemished, unpolluted, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, vanilla, washed, well-kept, white
Antonyms:	cluttered, dirty, filthy, foul, polluted, stained, tarnished

Main Entry:	comely
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	beautiful
Synonyms:	a ten, attractive, beauteous, becoming, blooming, buxom, fair, fine, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, stunning, wholesome, winsome
Antonyms:	bad-looking, despicable, disagreeable, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, ugly, unattractive

Main Entry:	dainty
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	delicate, fragile, fine
Synonyms:	airy, attractive, beautiful, bonny, charming, choice, comely, cute, darling, delectable, delicious, delightful, diaphanous, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, fair, feeble, frail, graceful, lacy, light, lovely, neat, nice, palatable, petite, pleasing, precious, pretty, rare, recherché, refined, savory, select, soft, subtle, superior, sweet, tasteful, tasty, tender, thin, toothsome, trim, well-made
Antonyms:	clumsy, coarse, harsh, heavy, rough

Main Entry:	delicate
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dainty, weak
Synonyms:	aerial, balmy, breakable, choice, delectable, delicious, delightful, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, faint, filmy, fine, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gentle, gossamery, graceful, hairline, mild, muted, nice, pale, pastel, rare, recherché, select, shatterable, shattery, slight, soft, subdued, subtle, superior, tender
Antonyms:	coarse, harsh, heavy, indelicate, inelegant, robust, rough, strong

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