Etymology

graceful

grace·ful
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Today it means: Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. Full definition →

Middle English graceful
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromgraceful
  2. English todaygraceful

From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.

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