gracile

1 antonym for gracile — opposites grouped by meaning.

Adj — Thin and slender.

Synonyms by Meaning

1. adj

Thin and slender.

“The deinonychosaurs have gracile skulls, a carnivorous diet, and asymmetric flight feathers; all these features possibly evolved secondarily in deinonychosaurs.”

gaunt lean lithe svelte leansome slender willowy lithesome slight slim rangy lank

Opposites

robust

2. adj

Slim and elegant in shape or movement.

elegant catlike

Antonyms

robust

Etymology

This word was borrowed from Middle French gracil, gracile (“slender, thin”) (modern French gracile, “gracile”), or taken directly from its source Latin gracilis (“slender, slim, thin; lean, meagre, scanty; simple, unadorned”), which ultimately goes back to Proto-Indo-European *kerḱ- (“to become thin; to wane”). Its sen...

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