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| Main Entry: | graceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, charming, lovely |
| Synonyms: | adroit, aesthetic, artistic, beautiful, becoming, comely, curvaceous, dainty, decorative, delicate, dexterous, easy, elastic, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, flowing, handsome, harmonious, limber, lissome, lithe, natural, neat, nimble, pleasing, pliant, practiced, pretty, refined, rhythmic, seemly, shapely, skilled, slender, smooth, springy, statuesque, supple, symmetrical, tasteful, trim, willowy, balletic, controlled, poised |
| Notes: | graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit |
| Antonyms: | awkward, careless, graceless, inept, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy |
| Main Entry: | beautiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically attractive |
| Synonyms: | admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy*, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, wonderful, beauteous, bewitching, enticing, pulchritudinous, sightly, taking, well-formed |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, grotesque, hideous, homely, offensive, plain, repulsive, ugly, unattractive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | charming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captivating |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, alluring, amiable, appealing, attractive, charismatic, choice, cute, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, desirable, elegant, engaging, engrossing, entrancing, eye-catching, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pleasing, provocative, rapturous, ravishing, seductive, sweet, tempting, winning, winsome, bewitching, electrifying, enamoring, enthralling, infatuating, magnetizing, seducing, tantalizing, titillating |
| Antonyms: | frightening, irritating, offensive, repellent, repulsive, terrifying, repulsing |
| Main Entry: | comely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful |
| Synonyms: | attractive, becoming, blooming, buxom, fair, fine, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, nice, pleasing, pretty, stunning, wholesome, winsome, a ten, beauteous, pulchritudinous |
| Antonyms: | despicable, disagreeable, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, ugly, unattractive, bad-looking |
| Main Entry: | elegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, tasteful |
| Synonyms: | affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, chic, choice, classic, clever, comely, courtly, cultured, dainty, delicate, dignified, effective, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, grand, handsome, ingenious, luxurious, majestic, modish, neat, nice, noble, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, polished, rare, refined, rich, select, simple, stately, stuffy, stylish, sumptuous, superior, turgid, well-bred, cultivated, ornamented, recherché, stylized |
| Antonyms: | crude, inelegant, rough, ugly, unfashionable, unrefined, unsophisticated, untasteful |
| Main Entry: | genteel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, cultured |
| Synonyms: | affected, aristocratic, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, refined, respectable, straitlaced, stuffy*, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered, cultivated, distingué, la-di-da |
| Antonyms: | boorish, callous, rough, rude, rugged, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible |
| Synonyms: | agile, deft, elastic, graceful, lissome, lithe, loose, nimble, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, spry, supple, lithesome |
| Antonyms: | rigid, stiff, straight, unbending |
| Main Entry: | lissom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supple |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lithe, loose, malleable, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, wiry, bendable, lithesome, moldable, stretchy |
| Main Entry: | lovely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, charming; agreeable |
| Synonyms: | admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, attractive, comely, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, exquisite, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, gratifying, handsome, knockout, nice, picture, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, rare, scrumptious, splendid, stunning, sweet, winning, beauteous, bewitching, captivating, lovesome, pulchritudinous |
| Antonyms: | awful, disagreeable, drab, homely, ugly, unsightly, unlovely |
| Main Entry: | pretty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive |
| Synonyms: | appealing, beautiful, boss*, charming, cheerful, comely, cute, dainty, darling, delicate, delightful, elegant, eyeful*, fair, fine, foxy*, good-looking, graceful, handsome, lovely, neat, nice, picture, pleasant, pleasing, tasteful, beauteous, cher, dishy, dreamboat, looker, pulchritudinous |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, ugly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shapely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-proportioned |
| Synonyms: | balanced, beautiful, built, comely, curvaceous, elegant, graceful, neat, pleasing, regular, rounded, statuesque, symmetrical, trim, full-figured, proportioned, sightly, sylphlike, well-formed, well-turned |
| Antonyms: | deformed, formless, shapeless, disfigured, disproportioned, unshapely |
| Main Entry: | statuesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tall and dignifed |
| Synonyms: | beautiful, graceful, grand, imposing, majestic, regal, shapely, stately, trim, well-proportioned |
| Antonyms: | short, small |
| Main Entry: | supple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, ductile, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome, lithe, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, stretch, svelte, willowy, wiry, yielding, lithesome, moldable, stretchy |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, stiff, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | svelte |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin and well-built |
| Synonyms: | graceful, lean, lissom, lithe, slender, slinky, smooth, willowy, sylphlike |
| Antonyms: | chubby, corpulent, fat, thick |
| Main Entry: | tasteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nice, refined |
| Synonyms: | artistic, beautiful, charming, chaste, classical, classy, cultured, delectable, delicate, discriminating, elegant, exquisite, fastidious, fine, graceful, gratifying, handsome, harmonious, pleasing, plush, polished, posh, precise, pure, quiet, restrained, rich, savory, smart, snazzy*, spiffy*, stylish, subdued, tasty, unaffected, unobtrusive, aesthetically pleasing, cultivated, esthetic, in good taste, splendiferous, swank, uptown |
| Antonyms: | tasteless, unrefined, unsophisticated, unstylish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | well-balanced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensible; equal |
| Synonyms: | all there, astute, aware, cognizant, discriminating, graceful, having all one's marbles, informed, intelligent, knowing, level-headed, logical, mentally stable, practical, proportional, prudent, rational, reasonable, sane, sound, symmetrical, together, well-thought-out, wise |
| Main Entry: | slinky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleek |
| Synonyms: | graceful, serpentine, sinuous, smooth, willowy |
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, satisfying to senses |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, creative, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful, cultivated, pictorial, rhythmical |
| Antonyms: | distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | becoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, agreeable, attractive, beautiful, comely, cute, effective, excellent, fair, graceful, handsome, neat, nice, presentable, pretty, seemly, tasteful, welcome, enhancing, well-chosen |
| Antonyms: | indecorous, tasteless, ugly, unattractive, unbecoming, unsuitable, unfitting |
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not dirty; uncluttered |
| Synonyms: | apple-pie order*, blank, bright, clear, delicate, elegant, faultless, flawless, fresh, graceful, hygienic, immaculate, neat, orderly, pure, sanitary, shining, simple, snowy, sparkling, spotless, squeaky, stainless, tidy, trim, unblemished, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, vanilla*, washed, white, cleansed, dirtless, laundered, neat as a button, neat as a pin, speckless, spic and span, taintless, unpolluted, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, well-kept |
| Antonyms: | dirty, filthy, foul, cluttered, polluted, stained, tarnished |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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