Graceful vs Gentle - What's the difference?
graceful | gentle |
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 Docile and easily managed.
Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
Polite and respectful rather than rude.
(archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
* Johnson's Cyc.
* Milton
As adjectives the difference between graceful and gentle
is that graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion while gentle is tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.As a verb gentle is
to become gentle.As a noun gentle is
a person of high birth.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
* gracefulnessgentle
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
- a gentle horse
- British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle , or simple.
- the studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time