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1. Characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit
   "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humour"
    
2. Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
   "our gracious king";
   - benignant
    
3. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness
   "a gracious gesture";
   - courteous, nice
    
4. Disposed to bestow favours
   "thanks to the gracious gods"

1. Used to express surprise
   "Good gracious me, when did you come, where have you come from, what have you been doing?";
   - Christ, Christmas, crikey [Brit], cripes, cor [Brit], crumbs [Brit], gosh, golly, by George, by Jove, blimey [Brit], gorblimey [Brit], cor blimey [Brit], my, holy cow, holy mackerel, holy smoke, holy moley, holy moly, fancy [Brit], good grief, goodness, goodness me, Gordon Bennett, gracious me, fancy that, gawd, god, my word, oh, O, ah, oh boy, jeez, geez, strewth [Brit], struth [Brit], yikes, I'll be blowed [Brit], blow me [Brit], Holy-dooly [Austral], heck, blooming heck [Brit], jeepers, jeepers creepers, Lord, Lordy, marry [archaic], well I never, heavens, good heavens, my goodness, Jesus, bejesus [N. Amer], od [archaic]

See also: elegant, friendly, graceful, kind, merciful, polite, propitious, refined

Antonym: ungracious