Definitions for gracile

gracile grac·ile

Spelling: [gras-il]
IPA: /ˈgræs ɪl/

Gracile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in gracile (acegilr).

Definitions for gracile

adjective

  1. gracefully slender.
  2. slender; thin.

Origin of gracile

First recorded in 1615-25, gracile is from the Latin word gracilis slender, slight, thin

Examples for gracile

Varro ascribes to him the gracile genus dicendi, the distinguishing features of which were venustas and subtilitas.

Before he recognized the olive-green tailor suit which he had come to know, he noticed the firm yet gracile move of her.

He studied Persis; how beautiful she was, how soft and gracile, how apt to endearments!

She heard it, too, for the gracile fingers fell from the strings.

Beatrice suggests to me something slim and gracile rather than two hundred pounds of hump-backed and enterprising pork.

Word Value for gracile
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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