Graceless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Graceless \Grace"less\, a.
     1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived
        of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a
        graceless age." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Unfortunate. Cf. {Grace}, n., 4. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
        {Grace"less*ly}, adv. -- {Grace"less*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  graceless
       adj 1: lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess" [syn: {unpleasing}]
       2: lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play";
          "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter
          Scott [syn: {ungraceful}]
       3: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when
          the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent
          manners always may be feel gauche" [syn: {gauche}, {unpolished}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "graceless":
     Doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
     blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling,
     butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, clownish, clumsy,
     clumsy-fisted, coarse, crude, cumbersome, damned, doggerel,
     dysphemistic, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky,
     godless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, heavy-handed,
     hulking, hulky, ill-chosen, improper, impure, in bad taste,
     inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, incorrigible, indecorous,
     inelegant, inept, infelicitous, irreclaimable, irredeemable,
     irreformable, left-hand, left-handed, lost, loutish, low, lubberly,
     lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, outlandish,
     past praying for, ponderous, reprobate, rude, shriftless, sloppy,
     stiff, tasteless, unconverted, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified,
     uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfortunate, ungainly, ungraced,
     ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unpolished, unredeemable, unredeemed,
     unrefined, unregenerate, unseemly, unwieldy, vulgar, wild