Graceful vs Poetic - What's the difference?
graceful | poetic |
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
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, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Relating to poetry.
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, title= Characteristic of poets.
Description of persons, objects, or ideas that connect to the soul of the beholder.
As adjectives the difference between graceful and poetic
is that graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion while poetic is poetic (relating to poetry).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
* gracefulnesspoetic
English
Alternative forms
* poetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}