gracelessness

gracelessness
The state of being graceless

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  • gracelessness — graceless ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking grace, elegance, or charm. DERIVATIVES gracelessly adverb gracelessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Gracelessness — Graceless Grace less, a. 1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. In a graceless age. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Unfortunate. Cf. {Grace}, n., 4. [Obs.] Chaucer. {Grace less*ly}, adv …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gracelessness — noun see graceless …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • gracelessness — See gracelessly. * * * …   Universalium

  • gracelessness — n. lack of beauty, lack of grace and elegance; shamelessness; rudeness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • gracelessness — grace·less·ness …   English syllables

  • gracelessness — noun 1. an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression • Syn: ↑ungracefulness • Derivationally related forms: ↑ungraceful (for: ↑ungracefulness) • Hypernyms: ↑awkwardness …   Useful english dictionary

  • awkwardness — noun 1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training • Syn: ↑clumsiness, ↑ineptness, ↑ineptitude, ↑maladroitness, ↑slowness • Derivationally related forms: ↑slow (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • clumsiness — noun 1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training • Syn: ↑awkwardness, ↑ineptness, ↑ineptitude, ↑maladroitness, ↑slowness • Derivationally related forms: ↑slow (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • stiffness — noun 1. the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend (Freq. 1) • Derivationally related forms: ↑stiff • Hypernyms: ↑inelasticity 2. the property of moving with pain or difficulty (Freq. 1) he awoke with a painful stiffness in his… …   Useful english dictionary

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