- pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: gracious suburban living;a gracious home.
- indulgent or beneficent in a pleasantly condescending way, especially to inferiors.
- merciful or compassionate: our gracious king.
- fortunate or happy.
- (used as an exclamation of surprise, relief, dismay, etc.)
- characterized by or showing kindness and courtesy
- condescendingly courteous, benevolent, or indulgent
- characterized by or suitable for a life of elegance, ease, and indulgence
- merciful or compassionate
- fortunate, prosperous, or happy
- an expression of mild surprise or wonder (often in exclamatory phrases such as good gracious!, gracious me!)
