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Definition: Graceless |
GracelessAdjective1. Lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess". 2. Lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott. 3. Lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "graceless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: GracelessSynonyms: gauche (adj), ungraceful (adj), unpleasing (adj), unpolished (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impenitence | Adjective: impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared, recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, |
Inelegance | Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite. |
Irreligion | Adjective: irreligious; indevout; undevout; devoutless, godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed; atheistic, without God. |
Ugliness | Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy. |
Vice | Evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Graceless |
| English words defined with "graceless": gracelessly ♦ ungraceful, unpleasing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "graceless": Dei Gratia ♦ Godless Florin, Graceless Florin ♦ HELL-BORN BABE ♦ Reynard the Fox. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Graceless Go I (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Graceless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Graceless" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "graceless": Graceless-ness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
graceless | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "graceless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i bukur, i pasjellshëm (discourteous, disrespectful, ill bred, impolite, rude, uncivil), i pahijshëm (bad, dirty, fie-fie, improper, indecent, indecorous, obscene, unbecoming, unchristian, unseemly, wry), harbut (boor, caddish, churl, discourteous, disrespectful, indelicate, lout, loutish). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعوزه الفضيلة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), безсрамен (barefaced, brassy, brazen, immodest, impudent, outre, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unscrupulous), безочлив (assured, audacious, brash, brazenfaced, immodest, impertinent, impudent, saucy, unabashed, unashamed), покварен (corrupt, depraved, gamy, godforsaken, obscene, peccant, scrofulous, vicious, wanton). (various references) | |
Chinese | 粗俗 (Vulgar, Vulgarity). (various references) | |
Czech | neřestný (depraved, dissolute). (various references) | |
Finnish | suloton (without charm), sulotar (without charm). (various references) | |
French | gauche, inélégant, corrompu. (various references) | |
German | reizlos (charmless, dull, homely, unattractive, uncomelily, uncomely, uninspiring, unlovely, unmagical, unprepossessing). (various references) | |
Greek | άχαρισ (clumsy, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, uncomely, ungraceful, unlovely), άχαρος (inelegant), απρεπήσ (impolitic, improper, indecent, indecorous, inept, risque, scabrous, tactless, unbecoming, uncalled for, undue, unseemly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חסר חן (inelegant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvariatlan (abrupt, brusque, curt, discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, inurbane, rude, surly, uncivil), esetlen (awkward, bearish, clumsy, cubbish, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, lubberly, unwieldy, wooden), bájtalan (unattractive, uncomely, ungraceful). (various references) | |
Manx | meeghraysoil (ungracious), gyn grayse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acelessgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem graa (ill-favored, ill-favoured), perdido (absent, absentee, devious, forfeit, forlorn, helpless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, lost, missing, out-of-the-way, perdu, strayed, undone, waste), mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), mpio (ill-favored, ill-favoured, impious), deselegante (crude, dowdy, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, shapeless, uncomely, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandsome), desavergonhado (brass, brazen, ill-favored, ill-favoured, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden). (various references) | |
Romanian | stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), pervers (obliquitous, perversely, perverted, vicious, wicked), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), neruşinat (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen faced, cheeky, frontless, impudent, indecent, nervy, outrageous, ribald, saucy, shameless, unscrupulous), necuviincios (brazen, disrespectful, disrespectfully, foul, indecent, indecorous, naughty, obscenely, scabrous, unbecoming, uncomely), fãrã eleganţã, depravat (debauchee, depraved, loose, obliquitous, profligate, vicious). (various references) | |
Russian | некрасивый (charmless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, shabby, uncomely, unsightly), неприличный (fie-fie, improper, indecent, indecorous, nasty, naughty, obscene, salt, spicy, unbecoming, unrepeatable), неподобающий (improper, indecent, unbeseeming, unseemly, unsuitable), бесстыдный (blatant, brazen-faced, impudent, shameless, unblushing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poročan (unchaste, unhallowed, vicious, wicked), nesrećan (calamitous, down in the mouth, fortuneless, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserable, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), nemilosrdan (cruel, dispiteous, hardhearted, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful, wanton). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin gracia, sin elegancia. (various references) | |
Swedish | gudlös (godless, impious, irreligious, ungodly, unhallowed), oförskämd (abusive, arrogant, be insolent, brazenfaced, immodest, impertinent, impudent, inpudent, insolent, nervy). (various references) | |
Turkish | görgüsüz (ill bred, mannerless, provincial, uncouth, underbred, unmannerly), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), nahoş (disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, grating, repellent, repelling, unlikable, unlikeable, unpleasant), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), непривабливий (repulsive, unattractive, uninviting, unlikely, unspeakable), безсоромний (barefaced, bestial, cynical, impudent, obscene, shameless, unabashed, unblushing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khiếm nhã (flippant, indelicate, inurbane, mannerless, rude), bất nhã. (various references) | |
Welsh | anrasol, afrasol (impious, ungracious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "graceless": gracelessly, gracelessness, gracelessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Graceless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Grikelis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "graceless" (pronounced grā"slus) |
| 5 | -ā" s l u s | baseless, faceless. |
| 4 | -s l u s | ceaseless, classless, defenseless, fenceless, priceless, purposeless, remorseless, senseless, sexless, useless, voiceless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, childless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, prothallus, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, valueless, victimless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-l-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: careless, eelgrass, gearless, largesse, rescales. | |
-2 letters: ageless, carless, cereals, classer, creases, earless, galeres, greases, largess, leasers, regales, relaces, resales, rescale, reseals, scalers, sclerae, scleras, sealers. | |
-3 letters: agrees, argles, cagers, caress, carles, carses, ceases, cereal, clears, crases, crease, creels, eagers, eagles, eagres, easels, egress, erases, escars, galere, gasser, glaces, glares, graces, grease, lacers, lagers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-l-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: sacrileges. | |
+2 letters: gracelessly, gracileness. | |
+3 letters: gracefulness. | |
+4 letters: gracelessness, gracilenesses. | |
+5 letters: clearinghouses, gracefulnesses, letterspacings. | |
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