gracious

== English == === Alternative forms === gratious (obsolete) === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/ Rhymes: -eɪʃəs === Adjective === gracious (comparative more gracious, superlative most gracious) kind and warmly courteous tactful compassionate indulgent benignant full of grace; graceful; charming; elegant (in appearance, conduct, movement) magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== graceful === Interjection === gracious Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration. ==== Synonyms ==== (expression of surprise): See Thesaurus:wow ==== Derived terms ==== == Middle English == === Alternative forms === gracyous, gracyows, gracyouse, gracius, gracieux, gratious, gratius === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French gracious, from Latin grātiōsus. Equivalent to grace +‎ -ous. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡraːsiˈuːs/, /ɡraːˈsjuːs/, /ˈɡraːsius/, /ˈɡraːsjus/, /ˈɡraːsjəs/ === Adjective === gracious (plural and weak singular graciouse, comparative graciouser, superlative graciousest) kind, gracious, polite forgiving, relenting (used mainly positively) godly, Christian, involving the graciousness of God a. 1450, The Creation and the Fall of Lucifer in The York Plays, as recorded c. 1463–1477 in British Museum MS. Additional 35290: lucky, glad; bestowed with good fortune enjoyable, nice, pleasing good-looking; pleasing to the eye obedient, respectworthy (rare) useful, beneficious ==== Derived terms ==== graciously graciousnesse ==== Descendants ==== English: gracious Scots: gracious Yola: graacuse, graashoos ==== References ==== “grāciǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 May 2018.