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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRA'CEFUL, a. Beautiful with dignity; elegant; agreeable in appearance,with an expression of dignity or elevation of mind or manner; used particularly of motion, looks and speech; as a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air.
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus
rode.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution [ant: awkward]
2: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: elegant, graceful, refined]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1557 displaying grace in form or action ; pleasing or attractive in line, proportion, or movement • gracefully adverb • gracefulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. having or showing grace or elegance. Derivatives: gracefully adv. gracefulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Graceful Grace"ful, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone or something that is graceful moves in a smooth and controlled way which is attractive to watch. His movements were so graceful they seemed effortless. ...graceful ballerinas. ADJ • gracefully She stepped gracefully onto the stage. ADV: ADV with v 2. Something that is graceful is attractive because it has a pleasing shape or style. His handwriting, from earliest young manhood, was flowing and graceful. ADJ • gracefully She loved the gracefully high ceiling, with its white-painted cornice. ADV: ADV adj/-ed 3. If a person's behaviour is graceful, it is polite, kind, and pleasant, especially in a difficult situation. Aubrey could think of no graceful way to escape Corbet's company... He was charming, cheerful, and graceful under pressure. ADJ • gracefully We managed to decline gracefully. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Elegant, comely, becoming, beautiful, full of grace. 2. Easy, natural, unlabored, flowing, rounded.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, Ciceronian, Daedalian, accommodating, adept, adroit, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agile, agreeable, apt, artistic, attentive, attractive, authoritative, beauteous, beautiful, bravura, brilliant, chaste, civil, civilized, classic, clean, clear, clever, complaisant, considerate, coordinated, courteous, courtly, crack, crackerjack, cultivated, cultured, cunning, cute, daedal, dainty, deferential, deft, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, direct, discriminating, easy, elegant, endowed with beauty, excellent, expert, exquisite, eye-filling, facile, fair, fancy, fastidious, featly, fine, finished, fleet, flowerlike, flowing, fluent, fluid, good, goodish, gracile, gracious, handsome, handy, heavy, ingenious, light, light-footed, limpid, lissome, lithe, lovely, lucid, magisterial, mannerly, masterful, masterly, natural, neat, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nice, nimble, nimble-footed, no mean, obliging, peart, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, pulchritudinous, pure, quick, quite some, ready, refined, resourceful, respectful, restrained, round, simple, skillful, slick, smooth, solicitous, some, sophisticated, sprightly, spry, statesmanlike, straightforward, stylish, suave, subtle, supple, sure-footed, tactful, tasteful, terse, the compleat, the complete, thoughtful, trim, tripping, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, virtuoso, well-done, well-mannered, workmanlike