Graceful vs Engaging - What's the difference?
graceful | engaging | Related terms |
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.
Graceful is a related term of engaging.
As adjectives the difference between graceful and engaging
is that graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion while engaging is that engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.As a verb engaging is
.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.}}
Antonyms
* graceless * clumsyDerived terms
* gracefulnessengaging
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I found the first of the Harry Potter books a very engaging read.
- Beauty, of course, and a bright, engaging personality — or at least the ability to fake one — are prerequisites for entering the Miss World competition.
