Difference between Gracious and Benignant

What is the difference between Gracious and Benignant?

Gracious as an adjective is kind and warmly courteous while Benignant as an adjective is kind; gracious; favorable.

Gracious

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: kind and warmly courteous tactful compassionate indulgent charming and graceful elegant and with good taste

Example sentence: Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Benignant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Kind; gracious; favorable.

We hope you now know whether to use Gracious or Benignant in your sentence.

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