Definition of Graceless

1. Adjective. Lacking graciousness. "A totally graceless hostess"

Exact synonyms: Unpleasing
Similar to: Ungracious
Derivative terms: Unpleasingness

2. Adjective. Lacking grace; clumsy. "His stature low...his bearing ungraceful"
Exact synonyms: Ungraceful
Similar to: Awkward
Derivative terms: Gracelessness, Ungracefulness

3. Adjective. Lacking social polish. "Their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
Exact synonyms: Gauche, Unpolished
Similar to: Inelegant
Derivative terms: Gaucheness, Gracelessness

Definition of Graceless

1. a. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.

Definition of Graceless

1. Adjective. without grace ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graceless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graceless

grace-cup
grace and favour
grace cup
grace note
grace notes
grace of God
grace period
graced
graceful
gracefull
gracefuller
gracefullest
gracefully
gracefulness
gracefulnesses
graceless
gracelessly
gracelessness
gracelessnesses
graces
gracias
gracilariid
gracilariid moth
gracile
gracile fasciculus
gracile habitus
gracile lobule
gracile nucleus
gracile tubercle
gracileness

Literary usage of Graceless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Joseph Bellamy by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1850)
"The other point which I designed to prove was this: that there is no graceless covenant between God and man existing ; that is, no covenant in which Qod ..."

2. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem, Conn. by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"And Mr. M. in his preface seems as if he intended to give up this point also; for he calls this graceless covenant " a graceless phantom ; " which is really ..."

3. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Chapter IX Karl van Beethoven—A Wayward Ward and an Unwise Guardian—Beethoven and His Nephew—An Ill-advised Foster-father and a Graceless, ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"SHE'S LEFT HER HOME, THE Graceless GIRL ! " AN hour or so before this talk between Geraldine and Marion, a panting, alarmed little fugitive was getting out ..."

5. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1871)
"A Shrewd but Graceless Oxonian.—Duns Outwitted.—The Lawyer Jockeyed.—Adventures with Bailiffs.—Sheridan's Powers of Persuasion.—House of Commons Greek. ..."

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