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graceful

adjective US /ˈɡreɪsfəl/

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

How often you will meet it

Rank 2,636 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,341 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.

What it means

adjective

  1. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
  2. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth also: elegant, refined

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

graceful in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • Katherine had thrown a cloak over her graceful figure.

    The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1

  • She was a graceful, green-clad figure, with fiery red hair and a flavour of Bedford Park.

    The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1

  • He wore them now as he sat, a lithe, graceful figure, on the edge of the stage.

    The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories · Ralph Henry Barbour · Chapter 1

  • I believe it attracted some notice, was thought “graceful” and was said to be by some one else.

    Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1

  • Slowly Kiki rose into the air, and resting on his broad wings, floated in graceful circles above the saucer-shaped mountain-top.

    The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1

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