Word Meanings - GRACIOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden. 2. Fortunately; luckily. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to GRACIOUSLY)

• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• FORTUNATELY
  In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• COURTEOUSLY
  In a courteous manner.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• GRACIOUS
  1. Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• LUCKILY
  In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• GRACIOUSLY
  1. In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden. 2. Fortunately; luckily. Chaucer.
• GRACIOUSNESS
  Quality of being gracious.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MALGRACIOUS
  Not graceful; displeasing. Gower.
• INGRACIOUS
  Ungracious; unkind. Holland.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• UNGRACIOUS
  1. Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling. Shak. 2. Having no grace; graceless; wicked. Shak. 3. Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored. Anything of grace toward the
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• MISGRACIOUS
  Not gracious.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• UNLUCKILY
  In an unlucky manner.
• PLUCKILY
  In a plucky manner.