gracioso

From Spanish gracioso. Doublet of gracious and grazioso.

gracioso (plural graciosos)

1. (obsolete) A court favourite. [17th c.]
2. (theater) A clown or jester in early-modern Spanish comedy. [from 18th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LV, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:

     I ſhall never ceaſe to wonder that the Engliſh, who are certainly a ſenſible and diſcerning people ſhould be ſo much infatuated, as to applaud and careſs with the moſt extravagant approbation, not to ſay adoration and regard, one or two gracioſo's, who, I will be bold to ſay, would ſcarce be able to earn their bread by their talents, on any other theatre under the ſun.

•   gracioso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old Galician-Portuguese gracioso, borrowed from Latin grātiōsus.

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: gra‧ci‧o‧so

gracioso (feminine graciosa, masculine plural graciosos, feminine plural graciosas, comparable, comparative mais gracioso, superlative o mais gracioso or graciosíssimo, metaphonic)

1. graceful

• graça

Borrowed from Latin grātiōsus, from grātia. Compare English gracious.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ɡɾaˈθjoso/ [ɡɾaˈθjo.so]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ɡɾaˈsjoso/ [ɡɾaˈsjo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: gra‧cio‧so

gracioso (feminine graciosa, masculine plural graciosos, feminine plural graciosas, superlative graciosísimo)

1. funny, amusing

   Synonym: chistoso

   Antonym: aburrido

2. silly (playful, giggly)

   Synonym: divertido

   Antonym: aburrido

3. facetious, cute

   Hombre, tranquilo. Yo no estaba hablando en serio. Solo estaba haciéndome el gracioso.

   Man, chill. I wasn't being serious. I was just being facetious.

4. graceful

   Synonym: simpático

   Antonyms: antipático, irritante, molesto

5. pleasing

   Synonym: agradable

   Antonyms: irritante, molesto

6. (informal) cute, rich

   Eso es gracioso viniendo de él porque hizo lo mismo hace años que ahora la ha acusado.

   That's rich coming from him because he did the same thing years ago he has now accused her of.

7. (sarcastic) annoying, graceless

   Synonym: molesto

gracioso m or f by sense (plural graciosos)

1. (informal) joker

   No te hagas el gracioso conmigo.

   Don't be funny with me.

2. (historical, theater) gracioso (bawdy clown or jester in 16th-century Spanish comedy)

• “gracioso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28