Gracious vs Pleasant - What's the difference?
gracious | pleasant | 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.
Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
* Bible, Psalms cxxxiii. 1
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Gracious is a related term of pleasant.
As adjectives the difference between gracious and pleasant
is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.As an interjection gracious
is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.As a noun pleasant is
(obsolete) a wit; a humorist; a buffoon.gracious
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Alternative forms
* gratious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* graciousness * graciouslyInterjection
(en interjection)pleasant
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Adjective
(en-adj)- Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant' as talking; just to watch was ' pleasant .}}