Ungracious

Definition: Ungracious

Ungracious

Adjective

1. Lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior".

2. Lacking social graces.

Date "ungracious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Ungracious

Synonym: discourteous (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: gracious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discourtesy	Uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.
Malevolence	Harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious; invidious; uncandid; churlish; (discourteous); surly, sullen; a.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ungracious

English words defined with "ungracious": Ingracious. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ungracious": Editor ♦ safety, Salt River. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He stopped on the ungracious sound of his words.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ungracious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungracious" is used about 35 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%	35	58,339

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

Arabic		‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian		неучтив (coarse, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, impolite, mannerless, uncivil, unmannered, unmannerly), нелюбезен (unamiable, unceremonious, unkind), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), неприветлив (austere, chilly, cold, forbidding, grim, stern, unaffable, unapproachable, wintry), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Czech		nezdvořilý (discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, mannerless, uncivil), nepřívìtivý (uncongenial, unfriendly, unpleasant), nemilosrdný (hard-hearted, heartless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, unmerciful, unsparing). (various references)

Farsi		منفور (Cussed, Hateful, Loathloth, Obnoxious, Outcast, Scurvy, Unpopular), نامطبوع (Hard, Nasty, Rancid, Ungraceful, Unhandsome, Unpleasant), ناصواب (Unhandsome), خارج ازنزاکت (Improper), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden). (various references)

French		incivil (uncivil), désobligeant. (various references)

German		ungnädig (harsh, ungraciously, unkind). (various references)

Greek		αγενήσ (caddish, coarse, discourteous, heel, ignoble, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, saucy, uncivil, uncourteous, underbred, unladylike, unmannered, unmannerly), δυσάρεστοσ (disagreeable, displeasing, nasty, noisome, objectionable, unpleasant, unsatisfactory). (various references)

Hungarian		kellemetlen (awkward, bad, bothersome, churlish, crabby, cumbersome, cumbrous, disagreeable, disappointing, displeasing, effing, evil, galling, grotty, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inconvenient, irksome, jarring, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, pesky, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, poisonous, to be in a hole, trying, unaffected, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, untoward). (various references)

Italian		scortese (discourteous, disobliging, impolite, rude, unfriendly, unkind, unneighborly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		憎まれ役 (thankless role, ungracious part). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		にくまれやく (thankless role, ungracious part). (various references)

Manx		meeghraysoil (graceless). (various references)

Pig Latin		aciousungray

Portuguese		rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourtesy, displeasing, disrobe, got-up, gruff, harsh, homespun, hussar, incondite, knockabout, larrup, lowly, point blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), pouco atraente (displeasure, unattractive, uninviting, unlovable, unlovely), indelicado (brusque, clumsy, displeasing, gross, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, unmannerly), displicente (displeasing), desgracioso (awkward, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandsome), descortês (discourteous, displeasing, impolite, inure, joggly, mannerless, rough, rude, unceremonious, uncivil, unmannerly). (various references)

Russian		нелюбезный (disobliging, unaffable, unhandsome), неприветливый (cold, stand-offish, surly, unaffable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, harsh, nasty, offensive, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, unkind, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury), nepovoljan (unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unlucky, untoward). (various references)

Spanish		poco gracioso. (various references)

Swedish		onådig. (various references)

Turkish		tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), sevimsiz (angular, beastly, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, uncongenial, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovable, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsympathetic), 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, ungraceful, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hoş olmayan (disagreeable, objectionable, unlikable, unlikeable, unpalatable, unpleasant). (various references)

Ukrainian		неввічливий (coarse, ill mannered, impolite, non-conventional, rude, uncivil), неелегантний (dowdyish, inelegant), непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiếu lịch sự không có lòng tốt, kiếm nhã, không tử tế (unkind). (various references)

Welsh		afrasol (graceless, impious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ungracious": ungraciously, ungraciousness, ungraciousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ungracious" (pronounced 'Un*gra"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, inefficacious, injudicious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious, Omniscious, Overluscious, Overofficious, Palacious, Perspicacious, Pertinacious, Pervicacious, Petrosilicious, Phenicious, Phoenicious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-r-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: carousing.
	-2 letters: arousing, coursing, gracious, organics, scouring, sourcing.
	-3 letters: acinous, anurous, carious, causing, congius, cougars, curiosa, curious, cursing, garcons, giaours, organic, origans, ourangs, racings, raucous, rousing, ruinous, sacring, saucing, scaring, scoring, signora, soaring, souring, uranous, urinous.
	-4 letters: acinus, acorns, agonic, anuric, arcing, argons, arsino, augurs, aurous, cairns, cargos, caring, casing, casino, cigars, coigns, congas.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-r-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: ungraciously.
	+3 letters: glucuronidase, neurosurgical, undiscouraged.
	+4 letters: glucuronidases, ungraciousness.
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