What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Gracious vs Greecious - What's the difference?

gracious | greecious |

As adjectives the difference between gracious and greecious

is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while greecious is (nonstandard|eye dialect) gracious.

As an interjection gracious

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

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.

    • greecious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (nonstandard, eye dialect) gracious
  • * 1884 , Theo Gift (Dorothy Henrietta Boulger), A matter-of-fact girl , pg. 283:
    • Mistress Lucking, that foire were in our greecious Queen's service, zo 'twould be treason to speak ill o't...
  • * 1885 , John Conroy Hutcheson, On Board the Esmeralda: Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21107/21107.txt]:
  • *:"Gudeness greecious !" ejaculated the mate again, blinking bewilderedly, like an owl unexpectedly exposed to daylight; but Captain Billings did not waste time in any further explanations or unnecessary words.
  • * 1929 , Gerald William Bullett, The Pandervils: Egg & Nicky , publ. Heinemann, pg. 393:
  • *:...we would 'umbly ask and crave thy greecious blessing, O Lard, upon this 'ousehold one and all gathered 'ere together at thy footstool.

    • Anagrams

    *