1 moving in a controlled, attractive way or having a smooth, attractive form:
The dancers were all tall and graceful. * He gave a graceful bow to the audience. * the graceful curves of the hills * Dolphins are incredibly graceful and efficient swimmers.
2 polite and kind in your behaviour, especially in a difficult situation:
His father had always taught him to be graceful in defeat. * At the age of 70, she withdrew into graceful retirement.
gracefully adverb:
The cathedral's white towers climb gracefully into the sky. * I think we should just give in gracefully. * Deer ran gracefully between the trees.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for graceful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is graceful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, graceful is tagged as adjective.
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