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語源

From 中期英語 gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native 古期英語 hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
• 韻: -eɪʃəs

形容詞

gracious (comparative more gracious, superlative most gracious)

1. kind and warmly courteous
2. tactful
3. compassionate
4. indulgent
5. benignant
6. full of grace; graceful; charming; elegant (in appearance, conduct, movement)

   The gracious movements of the figure skaters impressed the judges.

7. 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.

派生語

参考

• graceful

間投詞

gracious

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

同意語

• (expression of surprise): See Thesaurus:wow

派生語

語源

Borrowed from Old French gracious, from Latin grātiōsus. Equivalent to grace +‎ -ous.

発音

• IPA: /ɡraːsiˈuːs/, /ɡraːˈsjuːs/, /ˈɡraːsius/, /ˈɡraːsjus/, /ˈɡraːsjəs/

形容詞

gracious (plural and weak singular graciouse, comparative graciouser, superlative graciousest)

1. kind, gracious, polite
2. forgiving, relenting (used mainly positively)
3. godly, Christian, involving the graciousness of God
   • a. 1450, The Creation and the Fall of Lucifer in The York Plays, as recorded c. 1463–1477 in British Museum MS. Additional 35290:

     I am gracyus and grete, god withoutyn begynnyng, / I am maker vnmade, all mighte es in me, / I am lyfe and way vnto welth-wynnyng, / I am formaste and fyrste, als I byd sall it be.

     I am gracious and great, God without beginning, / I am the unmade maker—all might is in me, / I am life and the way to the attainment of salvation, / I am foremost and first—as I command, it shall be.

4. lucky, glad; bestowed with good fortune
5. enjoyable, nice, pleasing
6. good-looking; pleasing to the eye
7. obedient, respectworthy
8. (rare) useful, beneficious

派生語

• graciously
• graciousnesse

派生した語

• English: gracious
• Scots: gracious
• Yola: graacuse, graashoos

参照

• “grāciǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.