graceless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking graciousness
    unpleasing.
    • a totally graceless hostess
  2. adjective satellite lacking grace; clumsy
    ungraceful.
    • a graceless production of the play
    • his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott
  3. adjective satellite lacking social polish
    unpolished; gauche.
    • too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate
    • their excellent manners always made me feel gauche

WordNet


Grace"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton.
  2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Obs. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.

Webster 1913