What does Graceful mean?

Definitions for Graceful
ˈgreɪs fəlgrace·ful

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Graceful.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. gracefuladjective

    characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

  2. elegant, graceful, refinedadjective

    suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Wiktionary

  1. gracefuladjective

    Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

    She is a graceful dancer.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Gracefuladjective

    Beautiful with dignity.

    Etymology: from grace.

    Amid’ the troops, and like the leading god,
    High o’er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden.

    Matchless his pen, victorious was his lance;
    Bold in the lists, and graceful in the dance. Alexander Pope.

    Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
    Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. graceful

    Graceful refers to someone or something that moves in a smooth, controlled, attractive way or that demonstrates elegance, beauty, and dignity in form, manner, or behavior. It can also relate to a sense of propriety or politeness in actions or characteristic.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gracefuladjective

    displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Graceful in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Graceful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Graceful in a Sentence

  1. H. G. Wells:

    ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

  2. Auguste Rodin:

    The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

  3. Ramana Pemmaraju:

    The compulsion to remain beautiful forever has made women more uglier than ever. Remember its not about imbibing other cultures but accepting one's own nature is what makes one more graceful! Relish in your uniqueness!

  4. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

    m yet to see a Man more graceful, civilized and patient while making love with his woman; and a Woman who has never rejected her man's sexual advances!

  5. Bill Cassara:

    [After the murders], Terry told the LAPD he was referred to a possible music talent, but he said once he got to [Manson’s place], he just wanted to get the hell out of there. It was filthy and very obvious that there was no talent. He described hearing Manson’s girls singing while he played the guitar. He felt he had to get out. So he tried to make a graceful exit.

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