gracile
14 synonyms and 1 antonym for gracile, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Thin and slender.
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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.”
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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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