UNGRACEFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ungraceful mean? 

• UNGRACEFUL (adjective)
  The adjective UNGRACEFUL has 1 sense:

1. lacking grace; clumsy

  Familiarity information: UNGRACEFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNGRACEFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking grace; clumsy

Synonyms:

graceless; ungraceful

Context example:

his stature low...his bearing ungraceful

Similar:

awkward (lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance)

Derivation:

ungracefulness (an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression)

 Context examples 

Taller and broader than her husband, her flowing gown of sendall, and fur-lined tippet, could not conceal the gaunt and ungraceful outlines of her figure.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)