1 having the qualities of great comfort, beauty, and freedom made possible by being rich: --
2 used to express surprise or to emphasize what is being said: --
Gracious (me)/Good gracious (me), I never thought he'd do that!
3 pleasant, kind, and polite: --
You’re a gracious host.
4 having the qualities great comfort and luxury made possible by wealth: --
He was used to gracious living.
5 used to express surprise or to emphasize what is being said: --
Still, almost all of them paid gracious tributes to their predecessors.
Now she passes from us leaving the memory of a singularly gifted and gracious personality.
Are we to understand that there are other functions besides that of "gracious hospitality"?
It is not a gracious thing to impute motives to one another.
They should therefore be gracious and make eleventh hour changes.
He is also gracious and friendly.
He was very gracious about my saying there was something wrong with our earlier analysis, but he never thought money was a very important variable in explaining how economies worked.
It was a missed opportunity to get to know him better and to partially repay a debt incurred that afternoon when he was so gracious and kind.
