# gracious

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/ · frequency rank #13,164

## Definitions
1. kind and warmly courteous
2. tactful
3. compassionate
4. indulgent
5. benignant
6. full of grace; graceful; charming; elegant (in appearance, conduct, movement)
7. magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.

## Etymology
From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.

## Easily confused with
- **graciously** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gracious-vs-graciously)
- **gracias** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gracias-vs-gracious)

## Common misspellings (11)
`garcious`, `ggracious`, `graccious`, `graciosu`, `graciouss`, `graciuos`, `gracoius`, `graicous`, `grcaious`, `grracious`, `rgacious`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/gracious