Ant. Awkward, homely, uncouth, ugly, plain, gawky, ungraceful.
Graceless. Depraved, degenerate, corrupt, reprobate, dissolute, profligate, lost, abandoned, hardened, obdurate, shameless, incorrigible, wicked, irreclaimable; ungraceful, scampish, vicious, worthless.
Ant. Graceful, virtuous, upright, conscientious, worthy; gracious, tender-hearted.
Gracious. Benevolent, benign, kind, favorable, benignant, compassionate, friendly, merciful, tender, lenient, condescending, mild, gentle; affable, familiar, civil, polite, easy, courteous, beneficent.
Ant. Haughty, discourteous, ungracious, ill-disposed, churlish, unfriendly, impolite.
Gradation. Progress, progression, succession; graduation, precedency, arrangement, ordination, standing, rank, degree, stage, tier.
Ant. Equality, uniformity, fraternity; abruptness, break, hiatus.
Gradual. Regular, progressive; slow, approximate; continuous, unintermittent, step by step, gradational.
Ant. Sudden, momentary, instantaneous, periodic, intermittent, recurrent, broken, discontinuous, disconnected.
Grand. Stately, lordly, princely, august, exalted, majestic, elevated, illustrious, eminent, dignified, great, high; magnificent, glorious, superb, splendid, lofty, noble, sublime; principal, chief, main, leading, supreme; large, imposing, important, eventful, pompous, gorgeous.