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Adjective: gracious grey-shus- Characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit
"gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humour" - Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
"our gracious king"; - benignant - Exhibiting courtesy and politeness
"a gracious gesture"; - courteous, nice - Disposed to bestow favours
"thanks to the gracious gods" Interjection: gracious grey-shus Usage: informal
- Used to express surprise
"Good gracious me, when did you come, where have you come from, what have you been doing?"; - Christ [informal], Christmas [informal], crikey [Brit, informal], cripes [informal], cor [Brit, informal], crumbs [Brit, informal], gosh [informal], golly [informal], by George [informal], by Jove [informal], blimey [Brit, informal], gorblimey [Brit, informal], cor blimey [Brit, informal], my [informal], holy cow [informal], holy mackerel [informal], holy smoke [informal], holy moley [informal], holy moly [informal], fancy [Brit, informal], good grief [informal], goodness [informal], goodness me [informal], Gordon Bennett [informal], gracious me [informal], fancy that [informal], gawd [informal], god, my word, oh, O, ah, oh boy [informal], jeez [informal], geez [informal], strewth [Brit, informal], struth [Brit, informal], yikes [informal], I'll be blowed [Brit, informal], blow me [Brit, informal], Holy-dooly [Austral, informal], heck [informal], blooming heck [Brit, informal], jeepers [informal], jeepers creepers [informal], Lord [informal], Lordy [informal], marry [archaic], well I never [informal], heavens [informal], good heavens [informal], my goodness [informal], Jesus [informal], bejesus [N. Amer, informal], od [archaic]
See also: elegant, friendly, graceful, kind, merciful, polite, propitious, refined Antonym: ungracious Encyclopedia: Gracious |