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Gracious vs Well-behaved - What's the difference?

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Gracious is a related term of well-behaved.


As adjectives the difference between gracious and well-behaved

is that gracious is kind and warmly courteous while well-behaved is (of a person or animal) having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;.

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.

    • well-behaved

    English

    (wikipedia well-behaved)

    Adjective

  • (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
  • :The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
  • (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
  • (mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities

    • Synonyms

    * well-mannered * seemly

    Antonyms

    * ill behaved * (mathematics) pathological