adj.
    - courteous, kind, and pleasant.
 - showing the elegance and comfort brought by wealth.
 - (in Christian belief) showing divine grace.
 - Brit. a polite epithet used of royalty or their acts.
 
exclam.
 expressing polite surprise.
 
  Derivative
  
    - graciously adv.
  - graciousness n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: via OFr. from L. gratiosus, from gratia (see grace).