gracile
Adjective Satellite
- slender and graceful
Adj
- Lean, slender, thin.
- Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.
- Graceful or gracefully slender.
Adjective
- Delicately slender and graceful in form.
Examples
- Finding a spot for GRACILE on the board felt like threading a needle due to its length.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French gracil, gracile (“slender, thin”) (modern French gracile (“gracile”)), or directly from its etymon Latin gracilis (“slender, slim, thin; lean, meagre, scanty; simple, unadorned”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerḱ- (“to become thin; to wane”). The sense “graceful or gracefully slender” was apparently influenced by the non-cognate word grace. The English word is cognate with Italian gracile (“delicate, frail; slender, thin”), Portuguese grácil, Spanish grácil (“graceful; delicate; slender”), and a doublet of gracilis.
Synonyms
willowy, catlike, elegant, gaunt, gracile, gracilent, lank, lean, leansome, lissome, lithe, lithesome, rangy, sleek, slender, slight, slim, slinky, svelte, swack, sylphlike
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
gracile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgracile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gracile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary