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—ungracefully, adv. —ungracefulness, n./un grays"feuhl/, adj.lacking charm or elegance; awkward.[1660-70; UN-1 + GRACEFUL]
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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.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ungraceful — index inelegant, provincial Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
ungraceful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking in grace; clumsy. DERIVATIVES ungracefully adverb … English terms dictionary
ungraceful — [spelling only] … English World dictionary
ungraceful — adjective Not graceful; lacking grace … Wiktionary
ungraceful — Synonyms and related words: Doric, all thumbs, asymmetrical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, coarse, crude, cumbersome,… … Moby Thesaurus
ungraceful — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Lacking dexterity and grace in physical movement: awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, inept, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly. Slang: klutzy. Idiom: all thumbs. See ABILITY … English dictionary for students
ungraceful — adj. lacking grace, awkward, clumsy … English contemporary dictionary
ungraceful — adjective lacking in grace; clumsy. Derivatives ungracefully adverb ungracefulness noun … English new terms dictionary
ungraceful — a. Stiff, constrained, awkward, clumsy, inelegant, ungainly, uncouth, gawky … New dictionary of synonyms
