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with good grace

with good grace
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [with, with goo d greys]
    • /wɪθ, wɪð gʊd greɪs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [with, with goo d greys]
    • /wɪθ, wɪð gʊd greɪs/

Definitions of with good grace words

  • noun with good grace elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness. 1
  • noun with good grace a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment: He lacked the manly graces. 1
  • noun with good grace favor or goodwill. Synonyms: kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; condescension. 1
  • noun with good grace a manifestation of favor, especially by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school. Synonyms: forgiveness, charity, mercifulness. Antonyms: animosity, enmity, disfavor. 1
  • noun with good grace mercy; clemency; pardon: He was saved by an act of grace from the governor. Synonyms: lenity, leniency, reprieve. Antonyms: harshness. 1
  • noun with good grace favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity. 1
See all 24 definitions of with good grace

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Origin of with good grace

First appearance:

before 1125
One of the 6% oldest English words
1125-75; Middle English < Old French < Latin grātia favor, kindness, esteem, derivative of grātus pleasing

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Parts of speech for With good grace

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of With good grace

with good grace popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for with good grace

adv with good grace

  • acquiescently — disposed to acquiesce or consent tacitly.
  • ardently — having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
  • beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
  • blissfully — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.

adverb with good grace

  • enchantedly — As if enchanted.
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
  • jocundly — In a jocund manner.
  • jovially — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
All 21 Synonyms of with good grace

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