Gracious vs. Humble

Graciousadjective

kind and warmly courteous

Humbleadjective

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

‘He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.’;

Graciousadjective

tactful

Humbleadjective

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Graciousadjective

compassionate

Humbleverb

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.

Graciousadjective

indulgent, charming and graceful

Humbleverb

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive.

Graciousadjective

elegant and with good taste

Humbleverb

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Graciousadjective

benignant

Humbleadjective

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

‘THy humble nest built on the ground.’;

Graciousadjective

full of grace

Humbleadjective

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

‘God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.’; ‘She should be humble who would please.’; ‘Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.’;

Graciousinterjection

expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

Humbleadjective

Hornless. See Hummel.

Graciousadjective

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.’; ‘So hallowed and so gracious in the time.’;

Humbleverb

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

‘Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plaguesHave humbled to all strokes.’; ‘The genius which humbled six marshals of France.’;

Graciousadjective

Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.

‘Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born.’;

Humbleverb

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.

‘Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.’;

Graciousadjective

Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

Humbleverb

cause to be unpretentious;

‘This experience will humble him’;

Graciousadjective

characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit;

‘gracious even to unexpected visitors’; ‘gracious living’; ‘he bears insult with gracious good humor’;

Humbleverb

cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

‘He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss’;

Graciousadjective

doing or producing good

Humbleadjective

low or inferior in station or quality;

‘a humble cottage’; ‘a lowly parish priest’; ‘a modest man of the people’; ‘small beginnings’;

Graciousadjective

characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects;

‘our benignant king’;

Humbleadjective

marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

‘a humble apology’; ‘essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions’;

Graciousadjective

exhibiting courtesy and politeness;

‘a nice gesture’;

Humbleadjective

used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Graciousadjective

disposed to bestow favors;

‘thanks to the gracious gods’;

Humbleadjective

of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

‘baseborn wretches with dirty faces’; ‘of humble (or lowly) birth’;

Graciousadjective

courteous, kind, and pleasant, especially towards someone of lower social status

‘a gracious hostess’; ‘Greig was gracious in defeat’;

Graciousadjective

showing the elegance and comfort brought by wealth or high social status

‘gracious living’;

Graciousadjective

(in Christian belief) showing divine grace

‘I am saved by God's gracious intervention on my behalf’;

Graciousadjective

a polite epithet used of royalty or their acts

‘the accession of Her present gracious Majesty’;

Graciousinterjection

used to express polite surprise

‘good gracious, that was close!’;