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# graceful

«graceful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Moving in a smooth, light and beautiful way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (graceful, more graceful, most graceful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Moving in a smooth, light and beautiful way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#m1)

2) Having a beautiful, elegant shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#m2)

3) Polite and kind, especially when things are difficult, as in «a graceful loser». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used for dancers, swans, cats, horses and buildings. In PE and dance it describes smooth movement. Sense 3 is about good manners: a «graceful» winner or loser is kind and fair. In stories swans and grebes glide gracefully on the river.

### examples

- The ballet dancer was very graceful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x1)
- Swans are graceful birds on the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x2)
- The cat made a graceful leap onto the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x3)
- She was graceful in defeat and shook hands with the winner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x4)
- The bridge has graceful curves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x5)
- The Water Rat rowed with graceful, easy strokes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x6)
- Deer are graceful runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x7)
- It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x8)

### note

Adjective; adverb gracefully, noun grace. Opposite: clumsy, awkward. Spelling: grace + ful (one l). Do not confuse with «gracious», which means kind and polite (more about manners than movement).

### In the corpora

- [A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.136/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graceful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.