graceful
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- gracefully adverb
- gracefulness noun
- nongraceful adjective
- nongracefulness noun
Etymology
Origin of graceful
A late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; grace, -ful
Example Sentences
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Instead of being on a wooden post, it was on a brick column; at the top, the bricks encircled the entire box in a graceful arc.
From Literature
To the uninitiated, cross-country skiing looks like a graceful, rhythmic activity set against a hushed winter landscape.
The idea would be to give Ruemmler as graceful an exit as possible by distancing it from the Epstein revelations, and Solomon wasn’t involved with the plan, the Journal reported.
Gritting through a shoulder injury, Kim was graceful in defeat when the two-time gold medalist in snowboard halfpipe took silver and celebrated the teenager who beat her.
Mr. McDougall fills out this graceful intellectual architecture with the heavy matter of material fact.
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