grazioso

Meaning

  1. cute, pretty, nice, graceful
  2. delightful, graceful
  3. (literary) kind, gracious
  4. (literary, poetic) gracious, merciful, compassionate
  5. grazioso

Opposite of
sgraziato, dozzinale, grossolano, ordinario, scortese, sgarbato, sguaiato
Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
gra‧zió‧so
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡratˈt͡sjo.zo/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātiōsus (“agreeable, popular”), from grātia (“grace”) + -ōsus (“-y, -ous”). By surface analysis, grazia + -oso. Cognate to English gracious, French gracieux, Norman grâcieux, Romanian grațios, Spanish and Portuguese gracioso, Catalan graciós.

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