Gracious vs First-rate - What's the difference?
gracious | first-rate | Related terms |
kind and warmly courteous
tactful
compassionate
indulgent, charming and graceful
elegant and with good taste
benignant
expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
(military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
(military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
(by extension) Exceptionally good.
* (Matthew Arnold)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
Gracious is a related term of first-rate.
As adjectives the difference between gracious and first-rate
is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.As an interjection gracious
is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.As a noun first-rate is
(military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.gracious
English
Alternative forms
* gratious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* graciousness * graciouslyInterjection
(en interjection)first-rate
English
(wikipedia first-rate)Noun
Adjective
- Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.