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gracious

[grey-shuhs]

adjective

  1. pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.

    Synonyms: , , , , , ,
    Antonyms:
  2. characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: a gracious home.

    gracious suburban living;

    a gracious home.

  3. indulgent or beneficent in a pleasantly condescending way, especially to inferiors.

  4. merciful or compassionate.

    our gracious king.

    Synonyms: , , , , ,
    Antonyms:
  5. Obsolete.fortunate or happy.



interjection

  1. Also good gracious (used as an exclamation of surprise, relief, dismay, etc.)

gracious

/ ˈɡɪʃə /

adjective

  1. characterized by or showing kindness and courtesy

  2. condescendingly courteous, benevolent, or indulgent

  3. characterized by or suitable for a life of elegance, ease, and indulgence

    gracious living

    gracious furnishings

  4. merciful or compassionate

  5. obsoletefortunate, prosperous, or happy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

interjection

  1. an expression of mild surprise or wonder (often in exclamatory phrases such as good gracious!, gracious me! )

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • graciously adverb
  • graciosity noun
  • graciousness noun
  • nongraciosity noun
  • nongracious adjective
  • overgracious adjective
  • quasi-gracious adjective
  • ˈdzܲԱ noun
  • ˈdzܲ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gracious1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English gracious, from Old French, from Latin پōܲ “amiable,” equivalent to پ() “favor, kindness, esteem” + -ōܲ adjective suffix; grace, -ous
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Synonym Study

See kind 1.
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“Showtime was amazingly gracious about letting us know, like, do not take this as a creative slight,” Wright says.

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Dan Bifano is in a hurry, but it’s in his nature to be gracious, so he keeps his countenance serene even though gnarly traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway has made his visitors very late.

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They married, and their life in Hartford, Conn., padded by Livy’s family wealth, was a gracious dream, as the greatest of Twain’s age — Grant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Helen Keller — sought his company.

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He added: "A leadership of the worldwide Catholic Church is an enormous challenge but I saw before me last October a fit, healthy man who was gracious in all that he did."

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This is putting our value in our looks, and that’s what you should strive for: to be this beautiful, gracious woman.

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