Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being gracile; slenderness.
Wiktionary
- n. The property or condition of being gracile.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. State of being gracilent; slenderness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. elegance and beauty of movement or expression
Examples
“In person, Caesar was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832
“The other gentleman, stretched at ease in a deep chair, with one leg propped on a cricket, had the distinction of long forms, which the years had left in their youthful gracility; his snow-white moustache had been allowed to droop over the handsome mouth, whose teeth were beginning to go.”
“In person, he was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility.”
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phrontistery - g
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gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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miscible, jejune, barmy, offal, scurrilous, careen, grimace, marinated, petulance, desuetude, dictum, ensorcelled and 27 more...
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quomodocunquize, distrain, foudroyant, vellicate, rhapsodize, dastard, zenzizenzizenzic, cuppa, fnese, intercloud, ofter, dimwitticism and 53 more...
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melisma, elegance, bedeck, mercy, gracility, unmerited, acciaccatura, bedight, appoggiatura, goodlyhood, honestation, molinist
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brtom Gracility meaning not “slender and dexterous,�? but “skimpy.�? from Isola di Rifiuti Nov 17, 2007