Answer to "Goodness gracious!" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EGAD , but the solution may also be OH MY! which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

Goodness gracious! crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
EGAD	27 %	4
OHMY	13 %	4
OHDEAR	9 %	6
DEARME	7 %	6
MYMY	7 %	4
EGADS	7 %	5
OHGOSH	4 %	6
MERCY	3 %	5
OHME	2 %	4
DEARIEME	1 %	8
GEE	1 %	3
GASP	1 %	4
BLESSME	1 %	7
IDECLARE	1 %	8
OHDEARME	1 %	8
SAINTSALIVE	1 %	11
OHNO	1 %	4
MEOHMY	1 %	6
OHMYSTARS	1 %	9
GLORYBE	1 %	7
HEAVENS	1 %	7
OHGEE	1 %	5
MYGOSH	1 %	6
OHMYWORD	1 %	8
MANALIVE	1 %	8
OH MY!	1 %	6
ALAS	1 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Goodness gracious!

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• graciousness
• good grief
• goodliness
• god almighty
• goodhearted
• godliness
• by golly
• wonderfulness
• mercifulness
• golly
• bless you
• grace darling

Crossword Answer definitions

EGAD interjection

1. A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result EGAD

• "Great Caesar's ghost!"
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Omigod!"
• "Omigosh!"
• "Yikes!"
• "Zounds!" kin
• Goodness gracious!
• Holy cow, relative
• Mild epithet
• Mild exclamation

More clues leading to the result OHMY

• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "This is bad ..."
• "Good heavens!"
• "Heavens!"
• "That's surprising!"
• Expression of alarm
• "Gracious!"
• "This certainly isn't what I expected"
• "I didn't expect that!"
• "Goodness!"

More clues leading to the result OHDEAR

• "My goodness!"
• "Here we go again"
• "Mercy me!"
• Phrase of distress
• "How awful!"
• "Oops!"
• Worrywart's exclamation
• "This isn't good!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "How worrisome!"

More clues leading to the result DEARME

• "Oh, my!"
• "Alas!"
• "Eek!"
• Peter Ustinov's book
• "Oh my goodness"
• "Good heavens!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• Start of a diary entry?
• "Stars above!"
• "Good grief!"

More clues leading to the result MYMY

• "Hmm, what do we have here?"
• "Heavens!"
• "Goodness!"
• "Fancy that!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "What have we here?"
• Expression of mild surprise
• "Oh, dear!"
• "Well, I declare!"
• "You don't say!"

More clues leading to the result EGADS

• "My goodness!"
• "My word!"
• Old oath
• Quaint oath
• Zounds!
• Mild oath
• "I never!"
• "I say!"
• "Oh, bother"
• Astonished outburst

More clues leading to the result OHGOSH

• "Holy cow!"
• "Jumping jiminy"
• "Well, gee"
• Cry of quaint surprise
• "Dear me!"
• Cry of dismay
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "Good grief!"
• "Jeepers!"
• "Yikes!"

More clues leading to the result MERCY

• Benevolence
• Compassionate treatment
• Compassion
• Condemned man's request
• What a lenient judge may show
• "Have __!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "My heavens!"
• Feeling of compassion

More clues leading to the result OHME

• "Alas!"
• Words of woe
• Despondent cry
• "Dear, dear!"
• Woeful cry
• Words of worry
• "Alas"
• "Good heavens!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• Worrier's words

More clues leading to the result DEARIEME

• "Oh heavens!," quaintly
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Goodness gracious!"

More clues leading to the result GEE

• "Golly!"
• "___ whiz"
• Start to whiz?
• Whiz lead-in
• Beaver exclamation
• Command to a horse
• Golly
• Step in the right direction
• Turn right
• Word from Beaver Cleaver

More clues leading to the result GASP

• Reaction of surprise
• Post-aerobics breath, perhaps
• Shocked reaction
• Shocking reaction
• Breathe laboriously
• Express surprise
• Wheeze
• Pant
• Sound from one who was underwater too long
• Shocked sound

More clues leading to the result BLESSME

• Start of a confession to a priest
• Start of a confession
• Confessional phrase
• "Well, I'll be!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• '--, Father, for I have sinned'
• Confessional opening

More clues leading to the result IDECLARE

• "Oh, my!"
• "Land sakes!"
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Well!"
• "My word!"
• "Goodness me!"
• "My stars!"
• *"My stars!"
• "My!"
• Surprised exclamation.

More clues leading to the result OHDEARME

• "My stars!"
• "Heavens to Murgatroyd!"
• "My heavens!"
• "My goodness!"
• "Heavens!"
• Hand wringer's cry
• "Yikes!," quaintly
• Pearl clutcher's cry
• *"Goodness gracious!"

More clues leading to the result SAINTSALIVE

• "Goodness gracious"

More clues leading to the result OHNO

• "This can't be!"
• Follows an accident
• Words of dismay
• "Sakes alive!"
• "Say it ain't so!"
• Rats!
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Dammit all!"
• Speed skating gold medalist
• "Can't be..."

More clues leading to the result MEOHMY

• "Geez Louise"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "Good heavens!"
• Quaint exclamation

More clues leading to the result OHMYSTARS

• What Galileo said ...?
• "Shocking!," to an astronomer?
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "@#$%! That black hole is sucking them in!"

More clues leading to the result GLORYBE

• "Praise the Lord"
• "Praise the Lord!"
• "Hallelujah!"
• "Good heavens!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• Elated shout
• "Good gracious!"
• 'My stars!'
• 'Hallelujah!'
• "My goodness!"

More clues leading to the result HEAVENS

• "Dear me!"
• Celestial sphere
• It's over your head
• "Oh my!"
• Exclamation of surprise.
• Oh, goodness me!
• Goodness gracious!
• The firmament.
• Mercy!
• Firmament

More clues leading to the result OHGEE

• "Golly"
• "I hadn't thought of that"
• "Well, wow"
• Surprised call
• "Golly!"
• "Wow!"
• "Well, golly!"
• Heavy-sigh phrase
• "Gosh!"
• "Well, golly"

More clues leading to the result MYGOSH

• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Heavens!"
• "Holy moly!"
• Cry of surprise
• Rustic exclamation
• "For heaven's sake!"
• "Goodness me!"
• "Holy cow!"
• "Goodness gracious!"

More clues leading to the result OHMYWORD

• "Goodness gracious!"
• What Noah Webster said ...?

More clues leading to the result MANALIVE

• "Wow!"
• Holy smoke!
• "Holy cow!"
• "Gee!"
• End of the quote
• Saying equal to "Oh, boy!"
• Boy! oh boy!
• Relative of "Oh boy!"
• Exclamatory intensive.
• Intensive exclamation.

More clues leading to the result OH MY!

• “Gracious!”
• Words of surprise
• “Goodness gracious!”

More clues leading to the result ALAS

• "Ah me!"
• "Ah, me!"
• "Bummer, man!"
• "More's the pity"
• "Poor me!"
• "What a pity"
• "Woe is me!"
• "__, poor Yorick!"
• "__, poor Yorick!": Shak.
• Cry of dismay