graceless

3 definitions found

graceless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.

graceless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

graceless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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