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# graceful

adjective (graceful, more graceful, most graceful)

«graceful» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Moving in a smooth, light and beautiful way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#m1)
2. Having a beautiful, elegant shape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#m2)
3. Polite and kind, especially when things are difficult, as in «a graceful loser». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#m3)

### In the lessons

Used for dancers, swans, cats, horses and buildings. In PE and dance it describes smooth movement. Sense 3 is about good manners: a «graceful» winner or loser is kind and fair. In stories swans and grebes glide gracefully on the river.

### Examples

- The ballet dancer was very graceful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x1)
- Swans are graceful birds on the water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x2)
- The cat made a graceful leap onto the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x3)
- She was graceful in defeat and shook hands with the winner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x4)
- The bridge has graceful curves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x5)
- The Water Rat rowed with graceful, easy strokes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x6)
- Deer are graceful runners. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x7)
- It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/#x8)

### Note

Adjective; adverb gracefully, noun grace. Opposite: clumsy, awkward. Spelling: grace + ful (one l). Do not confuse with «gracious», which means kind and polite (more about manners than movement).

## In Jewish tradition

Used for a beautiful, lovely wife, a "graceful doe."

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as advice to be faithful to one's wife, and also as an image of the Torah being loved always.

### Examples

- A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always. (Writings PRO.5.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graceful/#x1)

### Note

Adjective; adverb gracefully, noun grace. Opposite: clumsy, awkward. Spelling: grace + ful (one l). Do not confuse with «gracious», which means kind and polite (more about manners than movement).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «graceful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graceful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «graceful» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graceful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«graceful» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/graceful.html) on Mova free.