gracile

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

slender and graceful

Adj

Lean, slender, thin.
Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.
Graceful or gracefully slender.

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

catlike, elegant, gaunt, gracile, gracilent, lank, lean, leansome, lissome, lithe, lithesome, rangy, sleek, slender, slight, slim, slinky, svelte, swack, sylphlike, willowy

Antonyms

robust

Scrabble Score: 10

gracile is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gracile is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gracile is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

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