Gracious vs. Humble — What's the Difference?

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

Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.

(in Christian belief) showing divine grace

Showing deferential or submissive respect

A polite epithet used of royalty or their acts

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly

Used to express polite surprise

To cause to feel humble

Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy

To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.

Characterized by tact and propriety

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Condescendingly courteous; indulgent

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

Merciful or compassionate. Used especially of God in Christianity and Islam.

(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

Characterized by elegance and good taste

To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

(Archaic) Enjoying favor or grace; acceptable or pleasing.

To hum.

Used to express surprise or mild emotion.

(transitive) hummel.

Kind and warmly courteous

An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Tactful

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

Compassionate

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.

Indulgent, charming and graceful

Hornless. See Hummel.

Elegant and with good taste

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

Benignant

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.

Full of grace

Cause to be unpretentious;

Magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

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.

Low or inferior in station or quality;

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

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

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

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

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

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

Doing or producing good

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

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness;

Disposed to bestow favors;