gracious

Meaning

Adjective

• kind and warmly courteous
• tactful
• compassionate
• indulgent, charming and graceful
• elegant and with good taste
• benignant
• full of grace
• magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.

Origin

• From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia. See grace. Displaced native Old English hold ("gracious"). gracioso, and grazioso.