Aesthetic vs Graceful - What's the difference?
aesthetic | graceful |
Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
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Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
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As adjectives the difference between aesthetic and graceful
is that aesthetic is concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance while graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.As a noun aesthetic
is the study of art or beauty.aesthetic
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Alternative forms
* *Adjective
(en adjective)- It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.
- If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
Synonyms
* aesthetical * esthetic * tastefulAntonyms
* inaesthetic * unaestheticDerived terms
* aesthetically * aesthetician * aesthetics * aesthete * aesthetisationAnagrams
*graceful
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* gracefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
