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graceful

adj
/ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from graceful

Definitions

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

    • She is a graceful dancer.

  2. Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint

    Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.

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

  3. 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.

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Derived

graceful degradation, gracefully, gracefulness, graceful pitta, nongraceful, ungraceful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at graceful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at graceful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at graceful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA