grazioso
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian grazioso (“graceful”), from Latin grātiōsus (“agreeable, popular”), from grātia (“grace”). Doublet of gracioso and gracious.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɡɹɑtsiˈoʊsoʊ/, /ˌɡɹɑtsiˈoʊzoʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊsəʊ, -əʊzəʊ
- Hyphenation: gra‧zi‧o‧so
Adjective
grazioso (comparative more grazioso, superlative most grazioso)
- (music) graceful, flowing
Adverb
grazioso (comparative more grazioso, superlative most grazioso)
- (music) gracefully, flowingly
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin grātiōsus (“agreeable, popular”), from grātia (“grace”) + -ōsus (“-y, -ous”). By surface analysis, grazia + -oso. Cognate to English gracious, French gracieux, Norman grâcieux, Romanian grațios, Spanish and Portuguese gracioso, Catalan graciós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡratˈt͡sjo.zo/, (traditional) /ɡratˈt͡sjo.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: gra‧zió‧so
Adjective
grazioso (feminine graziosa, masculine plural graziosi, feminine plural graziose, superlative graziosissimo)
- cute, pretty, nice, graceful
- Synonyms: carino, aggraziato
- Antonym: sgraziato
- delightful, graceful
- Synonyms: fine, elegante, pregevole, raffinato, squisito
- Antonyms: dozzinale, grossolano, ordinario
- (literary) kind, gracious
- Synonyms: affabile, amabile, cordiale, cortese, gentile
- Antonyms: scortese, sgarbato, sguaiato
- (literary, poetic) gracious, merciful, compassionate
- Synonyms: bendisposto, benevolo, benigno, disponibile
- (music) grazioso
Derived terms
- graziosamente
- graziosità
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Italian grazioso.
Adverb
grazioso
- grazioso