Synonyms for graceless

Most common

inelegant · clumsy · gauche · awkward · abandoned · bad

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

Antonyms

graceful, dainty, gracious

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Without grace.

2. adj. 2

   Lacking gracefulness.

Related words

Word family

gracelessly gracelessness

Example sentences

• awkward At first the trainees were awkward in his company.
• clumsy Her movements were awkward and her gesture clumsy.
• gauche I am so gauche with these wretched baubles.
• inelegant The slang is a metonymic but inelegant phrase.
• shameless That shameless smile says it all; he knows what he is.
• incorrigible They concluded that Tom is an incorrigible person.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

bad¹

4 letters

lost¹

5 letters

stiff¹

6 letters

wicked², clumsy², gauche¹

7 letters

awkward², uncouth²

8 letters

hardened², ungainly³, obdurate³

9 letters

abandoned³, shameless², unrefined³, reprobate³, inelegant

10 letters

unpolished, ungraceful

12 letters

incorrigible⁵

13 letters

irreclaimable

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wicked² = 2 syllables).