"gracefully" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪsfəli/ Forms: more gracefully [comparative], most gracefully [superlative]
Etymology: graceful + -ly Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|graceful|ly}} graceful + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} gracefully (comparative more gracefully, superlative most gracefully)
  1. In a graceful manner. Derived forms: degrade gracefully Translations (in a graceful manner): ἁβρῶς (habrôs) (Ancient Greek), بِرَشَاقَة (birašāqa) (Arabic), بِلَبَاقَة (bilabāqa) (Arabic), graciosament (Catalan), elegantně (Czech), sulavasti (Finnish), viehkeästi (Finnish), viehättävästi (Finnish), komeasti (Finnish), kauniisti (Finnish), upeasti (Finnish), uljaasti (Finnish), gracieusement (French), gracilmente (Galician), გრაციოზულად (graciozulad) (Georgian), anmutig (German), anstandslos (German), elegant (German), graziös (German), würdevoll (German), ευγενικά (evgeniká) (Greek), bájosan (Hungarian), kecsesen (Hungarian), go mómhar (Irish), go healaíonta (Irish), go seolta (Irish), go spéiriúil (Irish), graziosamente (Italian), យ៉ាងសង្ហា (yaang sɑnghaa) (Khmer), graciosament (Occitan), wdzięcznie (Polish), graciosamente (Portuguese), грацио́зно (graciózno) (Russian), изя́щно (izjáščno) (Russian), элега́нтно (elegántno) (Russian), agraciadamente (Spanish), behagfullt (Swedish), elegant (Swedish), med behag (Swedish), ince (Turkish), incelikle (Turkish), zarif (Turkish), zarâfetle (Turkish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.