graceful
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Definition of graceful
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Synonyms & Antonyms for graceful
Synonyms
agile, featly, feline, gracile, light, light-footed (also light-foot), lightsome, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, nimble, spry
Antonyms
awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, klutzy, lumbering, ungainly, ungraceful
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In my opinion, Blackmon’s running style is not graceful, like Carlos Gonzalez, so that might lead to your perception. — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, "Rockies Mailbag: Padres will own a no-no before Colorado owns an NL West pennant," 14 Aug. 2019 With a graceful, gradual build that extends across the track’s first two minutes, Cooper Saver harnesses analog-synth tones in service of a dynamic instrumental feat whose very title seems to celebrate the region. — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "California Sounds: New L.A. music from Cooper Saver, La Santa Cecilia and Allah-Las," 24 July 2019 In this context, the season's least graceful character has become its saving grace, and she's garnered more intrigue with each successive episode. — Lorraine Ali, chicagotribune.com, "‘Big Little Lies’: How Meryl Streep redeems a mediocre season," 15 July 2019 The delicate task at hand: Renovating while keeping the graceful character of the traditional architecture intact. — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, "An Old-Fashioned Fixer-Upper," 21 June 2018 Good erotica is hard to write; graceful and convincing audio drama is hard to produce; and the awkwardness of flawed attempts at both is excruciating. — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, "The Audio App That’s Transforming Erotica," 21 July 2019 His sculpture grew in scale, at the same time becoming more graceful and poetic. — J.u-s | West Yorkshire, The Economist, "The industry and poetry of David Smith," 17 July 2019 For example, the Mazda3’s graceful and slender front roof pillars are only buildable thanks to the thinner sections of superstrong steel. — WSJ, "Is the Mazda3 Hatchback The Best Car of 2019?," 14 June 2019 Fast forward a year, and Serena is still quietly fighting back against the decision in the most fierce yet graceful way. — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, "Serena Williams Defied Catsuit Critics by Wearing a Cape and Co-ord at the French Open," 28 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'graceful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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