Wonderful vs Gracious - What's the difference?
wonderful | gracious | Related terms |
Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:
Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
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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.
Wonderful is a related term of gracious.
As adjectives the difference between wonderful and gracious
is that wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary while gracious is kind and warmly courteous.As an interjection gracious is
expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.wonderful
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Alternative forms
* wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.
- They served a wonderful six-course meal.
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