gracefully

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English graceful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gracefully

    From graceful + -ly.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪsfəli/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Hyphenation: grace‧ful‧ly

    Adverb

    gracefully (comparative more gracefully, superlative most gracefully)

    1. In a graceful manner.
      • 1975, Bob Dylan, “Shelter from the Storm”:
        Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there
        With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
        She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns
        "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"
      • 2015 April 28, Kelly Wallace, “Older parents face ‘grandparent deficit’”, in CNN‎[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 6 July 2022:
        What happens then is kids are “deprived of grandmothers (maybe increasingly grandfathers, too) who are comfortable in their own skin, aging gracefully and being a good role model to kids, showing that growing old is not the worst thing that can happen to a woman.”

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