gracious

GRA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin gratiosus.]1. Favorable; kind; friendly; as, the envoy met with a gracious reception.2. Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings.Thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious andmerciful. Nehemiah 9:17.3. Favorable; expressing kindness and favor.All bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. Luke 4:22.4. Proceeding from divine grace; as a person in a gracious state.5. Acceptable; favored.He made us gracious before the kings of Persia. [Little used.] 1 Esdras.6. Renewed or implanted by grace; as gracious affections.7. Virtuous; good.8. Excellent; graceful; becoming