GRACELESS: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'greyslis
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| Matching Terms: | | gracelessly, gracelessness
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- [adj] lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche"
- [adj] lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott
- [adj] lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess"
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| | Synonyms: | | awkward, gauche, inelegant, ungraceful, ungracious, unpleasing, unpolished |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Grace"less\, a.
1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived
of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. ``In a
graceless age.'' --Milton.
2. Unfortunate. Cf. {Grace}, n., 4. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
{Grace"less*ly}, adv. -- {Grace"less-ness}, n.
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