Gracious vs Bountiful - What's the difference?
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kind and warmly courteous
tactful
compassionate
indulgent, charming and graceful
elegant and with good taste
benignant
expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
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As adjectives the difference between gracious and bountiful
is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while bountiful is having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.As an interjection gracious
is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.gracious
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Alternative forms
* gratious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* graciousness * graciouslyInterjection
(en interjection)bountiful
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Alternative forms
* bountifull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}