Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat 1

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenRP:
    • IPA: /ˈɡɹæsaɪl/
  • RP:
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˈɡɹæˌsaɪl/
    • IPA: /ˈɡɹæsəl/
    • IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪˌsaɪl/
KieliKäännökset
ranskagracile

Määritelmät

Adjektiivi

  1. (also, figuratively) Lean, slender, thin.
  2. (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.
  3. Graceful or gracefully slender.

Esimerkit

  • Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and ... you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of ... a cat
  • Gracile ... By some recent writers misused (through association with grace) for "Gracefully slender":
  • They seem to have evolved from more ‘gracile’ apes (gracile being the opposite of robust).
  • A more gracile morphology would have been far more efficient over larger areas.

Taivutusmuodot

Komparatiivimore gracile
Superlatiivimost gracile

(also, figuratively) Lean, slender, thin.

In anthropological terms, the skull of Paranthropus robustus (top) is regarded as robust, while that of Australopithecus africanus (above) is regarded as gracile.