gracious

Adjective

• Showing kindness, courtesy, and elegant charm.
• characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit
  • "gracious even to unexpected visitors"
  • "gracious living"
  • "he bears insult with gracious good humor"

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
• exhibiting courtesy and politeness
• disposed to bestow favors
  • "thanks to the gracious gods"

Adj

• 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.

Intj

• Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.

Examples

• A truly gracious player congratulates opponents, win or lose, after a Scrabble game.
• 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.
• The gracious movements of the figure skaters impressed the judges.

Synonyms

benignant, courteous, nice, wow

Antonyms

ungracious

Related Words

graceful

Anagrams of gracious