graceful

English · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

graceful

/ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/ UK, US

Where it comes from

From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.

adjective more graceful · most graceful · gracefull

Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. She is a graceful dancer.
Similar: airy
Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious. The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
Gradual and non-disruptive. Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.

Opposite: graceless, clumsy

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: elegant, gracious, deft, gainly, refined, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, svelte, supple, gracile, slender, smooth, sylphlike, flowing

adjective

Opposite: graceless, clumsy

Translations

Every language

adj showing grace

Español	grácil, gracioso, graciado, agraciado
日本語	優雅 yūga, 淑やか shitoyaka
中文	優雅 /优雅 yōuyǎ, 優美 /优美 yōuměi
हिन्दी	शोभनीय śobhnīya
Português	gracioso
Français	gracieux
Deutsch	anmutig, ansprechend, elegant, graziös, reizend, zierlich
Italiano	elegante, aggraziato, leggiadro, bello
Ελληνικά	χαριτωμένος charitoménos, εύχαρις éfcharis
Русский	грацио́зный gracióznyj, изя́щный izjáščnyj, элега́нтный elegántnyj
العربية	رَشِيق rašīq, ظَرِيف ẓarīf, لَطِيف laṭīf, صُبَاح ṣubāḥ, وَسِيم wasīm

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"graceful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/graceful. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

graceful. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/graceful

Chicago

"graceful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/graceful.

BibTeX

@misc{graceful_2026,
  title = {graceful},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/graceful},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}