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Gracile vs Spindly - What's the difference?

gracile | spindly |

As adjectives the difference between gracile and spindly

is that gracile is slender; thin; lean while spindly is characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.

gracile

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Slender; thin; lean.
  • * 1853 , Works of Walter Savage Landor:
  • *:Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and ... you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of ... a cat
  • * 1971 , :
  • *:Gracile ... By some recent writers misused (through association with grace ) for "Gracefully slender":
  • * 2005 , , The Ancestor's Tale :
    • They seem to have evolved from more ‘gracile'’ apes (' gracile being the opposite of robust).
  • * 2009 , Clive Finlayson, Neanderthals and Modern Humans :
    • A more gracile morphology would have been far more efficient over larger areas.
  • Graceful or gracefully slender.

    • Derived terms

    * gracility

    Anagrams

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    spindly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.
    • She has spindly legs.