how to pronounce gracious

/ˈɡɹɛɪʃəs/

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gracious is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of gracious in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… very gracious in saying hey whatever you …”

meaning of gracious

Gracious means kind, generous, and polite.

gracious frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word gracious occurs in english on average 7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics gracious can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gracious can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;