Entry Word: graceful

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 moving easily <the graceful ballerina effortlessly leapt across the dance floor>

Synonyms agile, light, light-footed, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, nimble, spry

Related Words flexible, limber, loose-jointed, pliable, pliant, supple; adroit, deft, dexterous (also dextrous); fleet-footed, surefooted

Near Antonyms inflexible, rigid, stiff; bungling, inept, maladroit

Antonyms awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, lumbering, ungainly, ungraceful

2 having or showing elegance <sat down in the old plantation homeʼs very graceful parlor> — see elegant 1