fluid and graceful
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3.9
- adjective
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fluido y elegante
- She glided across the stage in a fluid and graceful manner.
Examples
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The dancer's movements were fluid and graceful.
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The ballerina's performance was fluid and graceful, captivating everyone in the audience.
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His handwriting is fluid and graceful, almost as if each letter flows into the next.
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The otter swam with fluid and graceful motions through the clear water.
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The dancer moved in a fluid and graceful manner, captivating the audience with her elegance.
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With a fluid and graceful stroke, the swimmer glided through the water effortlessly.
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The brushstrokes in the painting are fluid and graceful, creating a sense of harmony and beauty.
Synonyms
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2.8
Movement that is smooth and attractive like a dancer or swan
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3.4
Simple and clever in a way that works smoothly and looks graceful
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4.2
Moving smoothly and gracefully without stiffness
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3.9
Moving smoothly and easily without stiffness
Antonyms
How Graceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'moving in a way that is smooth and elegant' is directly and compositionally derived from the known adjectives 'fluid' (smooth, continuous movement) and 'graceful' (elegant movement) joined by the simple coordinator 'and'. This coordinated description follows ordinary compositional semantics and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase fluid and graceful paints a picture of movement like flowing water and a dancer's smooth steps. The word fluid brings to mind water that keeps moving without stops and graceful brings to mind easy, elegant motion, so the phrase means 'moving smoothly and elegantly'.