Ungraceful

Definition: Ungraceful

Ungraceful

Adjective

1. Lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott.

Date "ungraceful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Ungraceful

Synonym: graceless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Ugliness	Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.
Vulgarity	Coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores; ungraceful; (ugly).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ungraceful

English words defined with "ungraceful": Un-, Unhandsome. (references)

Author	Quotation
Sir Richard Steele	Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Ungraceful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungraceful" is used about 3 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%	3	202,518

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.

Language		Translations for "ungraceful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jo i shkathët (unapprehensive, ungracious). (various references)

Bulgarian		тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, rude, shambling, stodgy, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy), неизящен (inelegant, inurbane, ungainly). (various references)

Czech		nepùvabný. (various references)

Farsi		نامطبوع (Hard, Nasty, Rancid, Ungracious, Unhandsome, Unpleasant), نازیبا (Inelegant, Unbecoming, Unhandsome, Unseemly, Unworthy), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Unhandsome), عاری ازمتانت , خالی ازلطف (Prosaic). (various references)

German		plump (awkward, clownish, clownishly, clumsily, clumsy, crass, crude, dumpy, inelegant, inelegantly, inept, lumpish, lumpy, obvious, stumpily, stumpy, ungainly, ungracefully). (various references)

Greek		άχαρισ (clumsy, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, uncomely, unlovely). (various references)

Hungarian		félszeg (awkward, gauche, graceless, lopsided, shy, ungainly). (various references)

Italian		sgraziato (awkward, clumsy, gawky, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ungainly). (various references)

Manx		neughraysoil. (various references)

Pig Latin		acefulungray

Portuguese		desgracioso (awkward, ungainly, ungracious, unhandsome), deselegante (crude, dowdyish, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, shapeless, uncomely, ungainly, unhandsome), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbler, homely, Hull, ill mannered, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inexpert, left handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Romanian		greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, massy, ponderous, slow, stodgy, stolid, ungainly, unwieldy, weighty), dizgraţios (disagreeable, disgraceful, displeasing, ungainly, unsightly). (various references)

Russian		неизящный (inelegant, inurbane). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nemio (disagreeable, ugly, unlovely, unpleasant), neljubak (unlovely), neelegantan (inelegant). (various references)

Spanish		feo (bad-looking, dirty, foul, homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, nasty, tacky, ugly, unsightly). (various references)

Turkish		kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, 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, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), inceliksiz, hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, unwieldy, yahoo). (various references)

Ukrainian		невитончений. (various references)

Vietnamese		vô duyên không thanh nhã, không có duyên. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ungraceful": ungracefully. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ungraceful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unrestful. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ungraceful" (pronounced 'Un*grace"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-l-n-r-u-u"
	-2 letters: furculae, furuncle, graceful.
	-3 letters: cageful, careful, clanger, flaneur, flanger, frenula, funeral, furcula, furnace, glancer, granule, lucarne, neurula, nuclear, unclear, ungulae, ungular.
	-4 letters: angler, canful, cangue, carful, cuneal, curule, earful, engulf, fecula, ferula, flange, frugal, fulcra, fungal, furane, glance, glucan, lacune, lagune, lancer, langue, langur, launce, lucern, lunger, neural, regnal, rueful, uncage, uncurl, unfurl.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-g-l-n-r-u-u"
	+2 letters: ungracefully.
	+5 letters: ultracentrifuge.
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