gracile

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: grac=ile

CIDE DICTIONARY

gracile, a. [L. gracilis, gracilentus.].

 Slender; thin.  Bailey.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gracile, adj. slender; gracefully slender.

Etymology

L gracilis slender

THESAURUS

gracile

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