ungracious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective lacking charm and good taste
    • an ungracious industrial city
    • this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious
    • ungracious behavior
  2. adjective satellite lacking social graces
    discourteous.

WordNet


Un*gra"cious adjective
Definitions
  1. Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling. Shak.
  2. Having no grace; graceless; wicked. Obs. Shak.
  3. Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored.
    Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon.
    -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.

Webster 1913