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gracious

/ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/

gracious adjective: of, related to, full of, or exhibiting grace.

Adjective

gracious (comparative more gracious, superlative most gracious)

  1. Of, related to, full of, or exhibiting grace.
    • Near-synonym: graceful (overlaps)
    Synonyms:
    graceful
    1. Kind and warmly courteous.
    2. Compassionate.
    3. Indulgent.
    4. Benignant.
    5. Benevolent.
    6. Charming.
    7. Elegant (in appearance, conduct, movement).
      • The gracious movements of the figure skaters impressed the judges.
    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.
    9. Tactful.
    10. (religious) Full of or exhibiting the grace of God (which can entail most of the preceding senses).
      • Near-synonym: blessed
      • a gracious plenty

Interjection

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

gracious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

gracious in Hindi

कृपालु

gracious in Tamil

அருளுடைய

gracious in Marathi

कृपाळू

gracious in Urdu

دلفریب, خوش نما, مہربان
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gracious in Malayalam
സുശീലമായ, ദൈവകൃപയുള്ള, സ്വീകാര്യമായ, സ്നേഹംനിറഞ്ഞ
gracious in Kannada
ಗಾಡಿವೆತ್ತ, ಒಲವಿನ, ಕನಿಕರ ತೋರುವ
gracious in Sanskrit
भव्य bhávya
gracious in Nepali
कृपाशील
gracious in Persian
بخشنده baxšande, مهربان mehrabân

Examples of gracious in a sentence

  • You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.
  • We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.
  • I'm such a devil, but they were gracious little "something-somethings" the whole time.

All 31 example sentences with gracious

Synonyms of gracious

Forms of gracious

comparativemore gracious
superlativemost gracious
alternative formgratious

Origin of gracious

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.

Words formed from gracious

Phrases with gracious

Words that rhyme with gracious

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Questions about gracious

What does gracious mean?
Gracious means of, related to, full of, or exhibiting grace.
What is gracious in Hindi?
Gracious in Hindi is कृपालु. See Gracious meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gracious?
Gracious can be an adjective or an interjection.
How do you pronounce gracious?
Gracious is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/.

Words near gracious in the dictionary

  1. gracing
  2. gracings
  3. graciosity
  4. gracioso
  5. graciosos
  6. gracious
  7. gracious goodness
  8. gracious me
  9. graciously
  10. graciousness
  11. graciousnesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gracious (page history and authors); gracious (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gracious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gracious (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gracious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gracious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gracious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); भव्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); gracious (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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