Gracious vs Lenient - 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.
Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
As adjectives the difference between gracious and lenient
is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while lenient is lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.As an interjection gracious
is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.As a noun lenient is
a lenitive; an emollient.gracious
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Alternative forms
* gratious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* graciousness * graciouslyInterjection
(en interjection)lenient
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The standard is fairly lenient , so use your discretion.
- But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.