ungraceful

1. 1.

   lacking grace; clumsy

   “a graceless production of the play”

   “his stature low...his bearing ungraceful”

   Synonymsgraceless

   Similarawkward

Questions about ungraceful

What does ungraceful mean?

ungraceful means "lacking grace; clumsy".

How many syllables are in ungraceful?

ungraceful has 4 syllables: un-gra-ce-ful. The stress falls on "gra".

What is another word for ungraceful?

Close synonyms include graceless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ungraceful a common word?

ungraceful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.