Ungraceful

3 definitions found

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

  Ungraceful \Un*grace"ful\, a.
     Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in
     beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful
     manners; ungraceful speech.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful
           trunk.                                   --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Un*grace"ful*ly}, adv. --
     {Un*grace"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ungraceful
       adj : lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play";
             "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter
             Scott [syn: {graceless}]

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

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungraceful":
     Doric, all thumbs, asymmetrical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous,
     blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling,
     butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, clownish, clumsy,
     clumsy-fisted, coarse, crude, cumbersome, doggerel, dysphemistic,
     fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless,
     gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky,
     ill-proportioned, improper, impure, in bad taste, inartistic,
     inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant,
     infelicitous, klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low,
     lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, outlandish,
     ponderous, rude, sloppy, stiff, tasteless, ugly, unaesthetic,
     unattractive, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious,
     unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraced, unhandy, unharmonious, unlovely,
     unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, unsymmetrical, unwieldy, vulgar