Word Meanings - UNGRACEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. --
Additional info about word: UNGRACEFUL
Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grace"ful*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNGRACEFUL)
- Graceless
- Ungraceful
- vicious
- scampish
- reprobate
- abandoned
- worthless
- Uncouth
- Odd
- unseemly
- ward
- boorish
- clumsy
- clownish
- ungraceful
- strange
- underbred
- ungainly
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNGRACEFUL)
Related words: (words related to UNGRACEFUL)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - GRACELESS
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. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n. - UNDERBRUSH
Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth. - CLOWNISH
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic; - CLOWNISHNESS
The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke. - COMMENDATARY
One who holds a living in commendam. - APPROVEMENT
a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now - APPROVE
approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton. 2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. - COMMENDATION
A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of - ABANDON
To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; - SANCTIONARY
Of, pertaining to, or giving, sanction. - COMMENDATORY
1. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope. 2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer , a prayer read over the dying. "The - COMMENDABLE
Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy. Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable. Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv. - SANCTION
sacred or inviolable, to fix unalternably: cf. F. sanction. See 1. Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of - COMMENDAM
A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. There was some sense - STRANGENESS
The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - CONVICIOUS
Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth . - RECOMMENDATORY
Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift. - RECOMMENDER
One who recommends. - DISCOMMENDER
One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.