Word Meanings - GRACEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRACEFUL)
- Becoming
- Beseeming
- neat
- fit
- proper
- decorous
- comely
- seemly
- befitting
- graceful
- decent
- suitable
- improving
- Befitting
- belonging
- appertaining
- consistent
- compatible
- requisite
- Comely
- Seemly
- elegant
- shapely
- fitting
- handsome
- becoming
- Elegant
- Graceful
- lovely
- well formed
- well made
- symmetrical
- accomplished
- polished
- refined
- Genteel
- Polite
- well-bred
- courteous
- fashionable
- aristocratic
Related words: (words related to GRACEFUL)
- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - POLITENESS
1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity; - POLITE
1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized - IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - BESEEMING
1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret. - COMELY
comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - ACCOMPLISHED
1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished - GRACEFUL
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. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - IMPROVER
One who, or that which, improves. - HANDSOMELY
Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - FORME
See PATTé - IMPROVABILITY
The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - INDECOROUSNESS
The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum. - PREREQUISITE
Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.