| Main Entry: | gracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, giving |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, big-hearted, bland, bonhomous, charitable, chivalrous, civil, compassionate, complaisant, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, easy, forthcoming, friendly, gallant, genial, good-hearted, good-natured, hospitable, indulgent, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, pleasing, polite, sociable, stately, suave, tender, unctuous, urbane, well-mannered |
| Notes: | graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit |
Antonyms: |
discourteous, hateful, mean, nasty, rude, sarcastic, severe, ungiving, ungracious, unkind, vulgar |
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
Synonyms: |
amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm |
Antonyms: |
complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | attentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | considerate |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, civil, courteous, devoted, gallant, gracious, kind, obliging, polite, respectful, solicitous, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
heedless, ignorant, inconsiderate, neglectful, unattentive |
| Main Entry: | benign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kindly |
Synonyms: |
amiable, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, complaisant, congenial, favorable, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, goodhearted, gracious, kind, liberal, merciful, mild, obliging, sympathetic |
Antonyms: |
hateful, hostile, hurtful, injurious, malignant, unkind |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous |
Synonyms: |
altruistic, benevolent, bighearted, chivalrous, considerate, free, gracious, greathearted, heroic, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, noble, princely, unselfish |
Antonyms: |
selfish, ungenerous, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | big-hearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very kind |
Synonyms: |
altruistic, benevolent, compassionate, generous, giving, gracious, noble |
| Main Entry: | charitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, lenient |
Synonyms: |
all heart, benevolent, big*, bighearted, broad-minded, clement, considerate, easy, favorable, forbearing, forgiving, gracious, humane, indulgent, kindly, lenient, magnanimous, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding |
Antonyms: |
hard, harsh, inhumane, mean, rough, severe, tough |
| Main Entry: | civil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obliging, kind |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, affable, civilized, complaisant, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultivated, diplomatic, formal, genteel, gracious, mannerly, polished, polite, politic, refined, suave, urbane, well-bred, wellmannered |
Antonyms: |
ill-mannered, impolite, rude, unkind |
| Main Entry: | congenial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, compatible |
Synonyms: |
adapted, affable, agreeable, amical, clubby, companionable, compatible, complaisant, congruous, consistent, consonant, conversable, convivial, cooperative, cordial, delightful, favorable, fit, genial, good-humored, gracious, happy, harmonious, jovial, kindly, kindred, like-minded, mellow, pleasant, pleasing, regular fellow, right neighborly, sociable, social, suitable, sympathetic, well-suited |
Antonyms: |
disagreeable, ill-suited, incompatible, uncongenial, unfriendly, unsympathetic |