gracious
Meaning
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- kind and warmly courteous
- tactful
- compassionate
- indulgent, charming and graceful
- elegant and with good taste
- benignant
- full of grace
- magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.
Concepts
gracious
kind
merciful
benignant
benign
courteous
nice
amiable
cordial
friendly
benevolent
favourable
polite
compassionate
good
gentle
graceful
kindly
intimate
well-disposed
handsome
loving
pitiful
civil
courtly
genteel
urbane
complaisant
charming
delightful
affable
pleasing
favorable
elegant
friendliness
familiar
propitious
auspicious
doing good
chivalrous
warm
forbearing
sympathetic
eleemosynary
debonair
gallant
gentlemanly
ladylike
patrician
soulful
thoroughbred
well mannered
considerate
mannerly
pretty
humane
oblige
dainty
tasteful
lenient
avuncular
accommodating
accommodative
freehearted
soft
well-intentioned
comfortable
easy
easygoing
folksy
pleasant
snug
indulgent
lucullan
lush
luxuriant
luxurious
plush
plushy
sybaritic
amicable
couthy
good-hearted
neighbourly
obliging
caring
forgiving
generous
kindhearted
magnanimous
sensitive
tenderhearted
poised
affectionate
good-natured
hospital
tender
hospitality
tenderness
glad
refined
genial
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
Etymology
From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.
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