Graceful vs Elegant - What's the difference?
graceful | elegant |
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
Elegant is a synonym of graceful.
As adjectives the difference between graceful and elegant
is that graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion while elegant is characterised by or exhibiting elegance.graceful
English
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.}}
Antonyms
* graceless * clumsyDerived terms
* gracefulnesselegant
English
(wikipedia elegant)Adjective
(en adjective)- an elegant solution