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more graceful

ADJECTIVE

agile, charming, lovely

Synonyms

STRONGEST

balletic beautiful decorative delicate elegant exquisite handsome limber lithe neat nimble refined rhythmic shapely slender smooth supple symmetrical tasteful

WEAK

adroit aesthetic artistic becoming comely controlled curvaceous dainty dexterous easy elastic fair fine flowing harmonious lissome natural pleasing pliant poised practiced pretty seemly skilled springy statuesque trim willowy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awkward coarse crude disproportioned fat homely inelegant irregular poor rigid rough stiff ugly unattractive uneven unrefined unsophisticated

WEAK

careless graceless inept uncouth ungraceful unhandy

Example Sentences

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Ward conceded "there are more graceful ways you can do that".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The ultimate goal, she says, is robots that are far more "graceful" than those of today.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Indeed, one of the more graceful surprises in a story suffused with loss and regret is the way Giovanni and Bruno’s surrogate bond ultimately opens the door, for Pietro, to a deeper kind of reconciliation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

Assuming you feel this way, say that you’re sorry you hurt him, sorry you handled it the way you did, sorry you weren’t more graceful — but that your rage and frustration were honest.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

Why did some words seem more elegant, more graceful than others?

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett