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Gracious vs Grievious - What's the difference?

gracious | grievious |

As adjectives the difference between gracious and grievious

is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while grievious is alternative form of lang=en.

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.

    • grievious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, dialectal)
  • * 1822 , George Hay, The Sincere Christian Instructed in the Faith of Christ from the Written Word , page 131:
    • Would it be a grievious sin for two cousin-germans to marry, without such dispensation?
  • * 1899 , Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated , volume 2, page 444:
    • Reasonable apprehension of immediate danger of grievious bodily harm to his wife and children, then in the house of the accused, is a justification of shooting the deceased, [...]
  • * 1973 , Safiriyu Abiodun Adesanya, Laws of Matrimonial Causes , page 41:
    • Thus S.16 (1) (d) would apply if while H and W were happily married, H fought with S at a party and caused S grievious bodily harm and H was imprisoned; [...]