gracile

gracile
Synonyms and related words:
Attic, Ciceronian, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, airy, attenuate, attenuated, attractive, beauteous, beautiful, boyish, chaste, civilized, classic, clear, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, direct, discriminating, easy, elegant, endowed with beauty, ethereal, exquisite, eye-filling, fastidious, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, finished, flimsy, flowerlike, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, graceful, gracious, handsome, heavy, insubstantial, lacy, light, limpid, lovely, lucid, misty, natural, neat, nice, papery, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pretty, pulchritudinous, pure, rare, rarefied, refined, restrained, round, simple, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, sophisticated, straightforward, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tasteful, tenuous, terse, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, trim, unaffected, unlabored, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

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  • gracile — [ grasil ] adj. • 1545, repris XIXe; lat. gracilis → 2. grêle ♦ Littér. Mince et délicat. ⇒ élancé, 2. grêle. Les formes graciles d une fillette. Svelte et gracile. ⊗ CONTR. Épais, trapu. ● gracile adjectif (latin gracilis) Litt …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Gracile — can refer to: * Gracile fasciculus * Gracile nucleus * Gracile syndrome , associated with a BCS1L mutation Gracile is the name for various plant species, including: * Dacrydium gracile , a Malaysian conifer * Eriophorum gracile , a type of… …   Wikipedia

  • Gracile — Grac ile, Gracillent Grac il*lenta. [L. gracilis, gracilentus.] Slender; thin. [Obs.] Bailey. Syn: willowy. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gracile — / gratʃile/ agg. [dal lat. gracĭlis ]. 1. a. [di costituzione fisica piccola e minuta: una bambina g. ; braccia g. ] ▶◀ esile, magro, mingherlino, minuto, smilzo, sottile. ↓ asciutto, snello. ◀▶ corpacciuto, corpulento, massiccio, muscoloso,… …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • gracile — 1620s, from L. gracilis “slender, thin, fine; plain, simple.” Not etymologically connected to grace but often regarded as if it is. Perhaps a dissimilated form related to L. cracens slender; if so, perhaps cognate with Skt. krsah thin, weak,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • gracile — [gras′il] adj. [L gracilis, scanty] 1. slender; slim 2. [by assoc. with GRACE] gracefully slender 3. graceful gracility [gra sil′ə tē, grəsil ə tē] n …   English World dictionary

  • gracile — grà·ci·le agg. AU 1a. di qcn. o del corpo o di una sua parte, magro, esile, poco resistente agli sforzi e alla fatica: un bambino gracile, gambe gracili, fisico gracile Sinonimi: 1esile, fragile, magro, 2minuto. Contrari: atletico, forzuto,… …   Dizionario italiano

  • Gracile Shrew Tenrec — Gracile Shrew Tenrec[1] Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2 …   Wikipedia

  • Gracile Naked-tailed Shrew — Conservation status Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

  • gracile fasciculus — n, pl gracile fasciculi FASCICULUS GRACILIS …   Medical dictionary

  • Gracile nucleus — Brain: Gracile nucleus Section of the medulla oblongata at the level of the decussation of the Pyramids. Gracile nucleus is #8 …   Wikipedia

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