English

Alternative forms

• gracilent

Adjective

gracile ‎(comparative more gracile, superlative most gracile)

1. Slender; thin; lean.
   • 1853, Works of Walter Savage Landor:

     Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and ... you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of ... a cat

   • 1971, Oxford English Dictionary#Compact_editions:

     Gracile ... By some recent writers misused (through association with grace) for "Gracefully slender":

   • 2005, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale:

     They seem to have evolved from more ‘gracile’ apes (gracile being the opposite of robust).

   • 2009, Clive Finlayson, Neanderthals and Modern Humans:

     A more gracile morphology would have been far more efficient over larger areas.

2. Graceful or gracefully slender.

Translations

Derived terms

• gracility
• gracilize

Anagrams

• glacier

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin gracilis. Doublet of grêle.

Adjective

gracile m, f ‎(plural graciles)

1. gracile

Italian

Adjective

gracile m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural gracili)

1. delicate, frail, weakly
2. slender, thin

Related terms

• gracilità

Anagrams

• grecali, legarci

Latin

Adjective

gracile

1. nominative neuter singular of gracilis
2. accusative neuter singular of gracilis
3. vocative neuter singular of gracilis