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Gracious vs Decorum - What's the difference?

gracious | decorum |

As an adjective gracious

is kind and warmly courteous.

As an interjection gracious

is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

As a noun decorum is

appropriate social behavior; propriety.

gracious

English

Alternative forms

* gratious (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • kind and warmly courteous
  • tactful
  • compassionate
  • indulgent, charming and graceful
  • elegant and with good taste
  • benignant

    • Derived terms

    * graciousness * graciously

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

    • decorum

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
  • * 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
    • It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
  • (countable) A convention of social behavior

    • Related terms

    * decorous