[grey-shuh
s] 
| 1. | pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous. |
| 2. | characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: gracious suburban living; a gracious home. |
| 3. | indulgent or beneficent in a pleasantly condescending way, esp. to inferiors. |
| 4. | merciful or compassionate: our gracious king. |
| 5. | Obsolete. fortunate or happy. |
| 6. | (used as an exclamation of surprise, relief, dismay, etc.) |
[grey-shee-os-i-tee] , noun