Synonyms of gracile

gracile

adjective

ˈgra-səl 

as in graceful

moving easily

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• graceful
• agile
• lithe
• lithesome
• nimble
• feline
• lissome
• spry
• balletic
• lightsome
• light-footed
• light
• flexible
• limber
• featly
• pliant
• acrobatic
• supple
• pliable
• athletic
• dexterous
• loose-jointed
• adroit
• deft
• coordinated
• sure-footed
• fleet-footed
• light-fingered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ungainly
• awkward
• clumsy
• gawky
• lumbering
• ungraceful
• graceless
• rigid
• uncoordinated
• stiff
• inflexible
• klutzy
• inept
• maladroit
• bungling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gracile

Alvarezsaurs were predominantly small, with stubby but powerful forelimbs, long and gracile hindlimbs and lightly built skulls. — Reuters, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026

Hawkins misplaced horns and spikes, and some of his robust four-legged dinosaurs were actually gracile bipeds. — Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023

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

Gracile skulls due to the Mongoloid’s very recent evolutionary development. — Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017

More generally, humans as a whole have become more gracile over the last 10,000 years. — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2012