grá means love, affection. It carries an Arena rating of 1287, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, grá ranks #1,239 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,536 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #9,483 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #9,694 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words.
grá is pronounced /ɡɹɑː/.
Why “grá” is a great word
A deep, enduring affection, typically of a gentle, non-erotic nature, derived from Irish grá (older spelling grádh), itself from Latin gratus, meaning 'pleasing, agreeable, beloved'. Unlike searc, which burns with the concentrated heat of romantic passion, or cion, which carries the subtle taint of favoritism, grá is the broad, democratic current of human attachment. It is the grandmother who keeps your childhood drawing framed in the kitchen thirty years later, the weight of a hand on a fevered brow, and the unspoken understanding between lifelong friends over a silent cup of tea—the quiet, undramatic fact of being pleased by another's existence, the foundational warmth upon which all other loves are built.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish grá.
noun
- Love, affection.e.g.“He admits that, as a project, “it's a bit niche, but I think anybody who's been here develops a massive grá for Achill. […]”” — 2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Graham Sweeney, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11:
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