ungracefuladj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈɡreɪsf(ᵿ)l/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈɡreɪsf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˌənˈɡreɪsfəl/ (un- prefix1 1.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [adjective] > ungraceful
graceless?1507
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
awkwarda1616
disgraceful1615
unwieldya1635
dishonest1653
ungraceful1667
ungracious1695
ungain1710
unswan-like1837
unheppen1855
disgracious1870
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective]
untheweda1325
unbenec1400
incondite1539
undight1555
ungentle1565
impolished1583
transalpinea1592
impolited1598
uncourtly1598
tartarous1602
impolite1612
unelevated1627
unfashioned1630
unbrushed1640
unhewed1644
hirsute1658
unhewn1659
inelegant1667
sordid1668
ingenteel1694
barbarous1700
ungracefula1732
tramontane1740
uninformed1754
clumsy1758
heavy1817
uncharmed1818
nettle-rough1850
blowzy1851
mal élevé1878
inexquisite1922
pseudo-sophisticated1925
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 218 Nor are thy lips ungraceful, Sire of men, Nor tongue ineloquent. View more context for this quotation
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 11 The cause of the uneasy and ungraceful walking of the lame.
1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 111 These real ornaments, like his hair, were thin and ungraceful.
1831 W. Scott Kenilworth (rev. ed.) xiv, in Waverley Novels XXII. 250 His stature low, his limbs stout, his bearing ungraceful.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 356 The front, though ungraceful, was lofty and richly adorned.
1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. 467 In Versus Elegiacus a final trisyllable is rare and ungraceful.
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adj.1667