gracile

adjective

grac·ile ˈgra-səl

-ˌsī(-ə)l

Synonyms of gracile next

: slender, slight

: graceful

: of, relating to, resembling, or being a relatively small slender australopithecine (genus Australopithecus) characterized especially by molars and incisors of similar size that are adapted to a diet including both plant matter and animal flesh compare robust sense 5

gracileness noun

gracility

gra-ˈsi-lə-tē

noun

Example Sentences

gracile as any pair of classically trained dancers, the bride and groom made their way around the dance floor

Recent Examples on the Web More generally, humans as a whole have become more gracile over the last 10,000 years. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2012 Elephant bones by comparison are gracile, slender—they’re like twigs compared to mastodons. —

Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 The bright colors and gracile X-braces of the Eames House are written all across the Pompidou Center. —

Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022 Homotherium was not the only carnivore on the Pleistocene landscape, and the gracile cats might have faced competition from Ice Age hyenas, bears and other cats. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021 At first glance, there would seem to be nothing to find in that little house of Cobb’s signature masterpiece, the gracile glass skyscraper that still crowns Boston’s skyline and is the quintessence of what design historians call high modernism. —

Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2019 Gracile skulls due to the Mongoloid’s very recent evolutionary development. —

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