graceful

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

   She is a graceful dancer.

2. 2
   adj

   Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.

   The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.

3. 3
   adj

   Gradual and non-disruptive.

   Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.

4. 4
   adj

   characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

5. 5
   adj

   suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Etymology

From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.