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Pleasing vs Gracious - What's the difference?

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Pleasing is a related term of gracious.


As adjectives the difference between pleasing and gracious

is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while gracious is kind and warmly courteous.

As a noun pleasing

is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".

As a verb pleasing

is .

As an interjection gracious is

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

pleasing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
  • Synonyms

    *

    Noun

  • pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
  • What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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.