more graceful

ADJECTIVE

agile, charming, lovely

Synonyms

STRONGEST

balletic beautiful decorative delicate elegant exquisite handsome limber lithe neat nimble refined rhythmic shapely slender smooth supple symmetrical tasteful

WEAK

adroit aesthetic artistic becoming comely controlled curvaceous dainty dexterous easy elastic fair fine flowing harmonious lissome natural pleasing pliant poised practiced pretty seemly skilled springy statuesque trim willowy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awkward coarse crude disproportioned fat homely inelegant irregular poor rigid rough stiff ugly unattractive uneven unrefined unsophisticated

WEAK

careless graceless inept uncouth ungraceful unhandy

Example Sentences

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Ward conceded "there are more graceful ways you can do that".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The ultimate goal, she says, is robots that are far more "graceful" than those of today.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

It was a subtle, and much more graceful, version of what the rest of us might do with our hands searching for the light switch in a dark, unfamiliar hotel room.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Assuming you feel this way, say that you’re sorry you hurt him, sorry you handled it the way you did, sorry you weren’t more graceful — but that your rage and frustration were honest.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

She was much more graceful in her landing.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool