graceful
adjective
characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful reply.
gracefulness
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a word derived from
graceful.
Example Sentences
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“We still kept the gracefulness, but the style and music are very different.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
For most of us, our gracefulness or lack of it are fairly stable states.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
Unlike earlier sections of that work, the finale manages to balance didactic clarity with transporting gracefulness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Many people are drawn to butterflies because of their beauty, their gracefulness, the ephemeral nature of their lives, and because of the seemingly magical transformation from caterpillar to adult butterfly.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 18, 2022
There is a delicacy and gentleness to Chopin’s music, though, that represents the final curtain call of the age of elegance and gracefulness, of sense and sensibility.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
