gracious

• gratious (obsolete)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

gracious (comparative more gracious, superlative most gracious)

1. kind and warmly courteous
2. tactful
3. compassionate
4. indulgent, charming and graceful
5. elegant and with good taste
6. benignant
7. full of grace
8. magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.

   The actress's gracious acceptance of being named only in the end credits allowed her character's appearance in the episode to remain a surprise.

• graciousness
• graciously

• graceful

gracious

1. Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.

• (expression of surprise): See Thesaurus:wow

• gracyous, gracyows, gracyouse, gracius, gracieux, gratious, gratius

From Old French gracious, from Latin grātiōsus. Equivalent to grace +‎ -ous.

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːsiˈuːs/, /ɡraːˈsjuːs/, /ˈɡraːsius/, /ˈɡraːsjus/, /ˈɡraːsjəs/

gracious (plural and weak singular graciouse, comparative graciouser, superlative graciousest)

1. kind, gracious, polite
2. forgiving, relenting (used mainly positively)
3. godly, Christian, involving the graciousness of God.
4. lucky, glad; bestowed with good fortune.
5. enjoyable, nice, pleasing.
6. good-looking; pleasing to the eye.
7. obedient, respectworthy
8. (rare) useful, beneficious

• graciously
• graciousnesse

• English: gracious
• Scots: gracious
• Yola: graacuse, graashoos

• “grāciǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.