Delightful vs Graceful - What's the difference?
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Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1
As adjectives the difference between delightful and graceful
is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.delightful
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Alternative forms
* delightfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)graceful
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Alternative forms
* 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.}}