Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

gracious

Syllabification: (gra·cious)
Pronunciation: /ˈgrāSHəs/

Translate gracious | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of gracious

adjective

  • 1courteous, kind, and pleasant:smiling and gracious in defeat
  • elegant and tasteful, especially as exhibiting wealth or high social status:the British painter specialized in gracious Victorian interiors gracious living
  • 2(in Christian belief) showing divine grace:I am saved by God’s gracious intervention on my behalf
  • 3British a polite epithet used of royalty or their acts:the accession of Her present gracious Majesty

exclamation

  • expressing polite surprise.

Derivatives

graciously

adverb

graciousness

noun

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from Latin gratiosus, from gratia 'esteem, favor' (see grace)

gracious in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of gracious in the British & World English dictionary