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gracious
What does gracious mean?
gracious (adjective): kind and warmly courteous.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use gracious in a sentence?
- You're very gracious. (Tatoeba sentence #5939025 by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce gracious?
/ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does gracious come from?
From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to gracious
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “gracious”?
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What does “gracious” mean?
happening once every year
Not quite: that's what annual means.
lasting forever; unending
Not quite: that's what eternal means.
kind and warmly courteous
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untamed; not domesticated
Not quite: that's what wild means.
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