untactful

1. 1.

   lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

   “in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age”

   Synonymstactless

Questions about untactful

What does untactful mean?

untactful means "lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others".

How many syllables are in untactful?

untactful has 3 syllables: un-tact-ful. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for untactful?

Close synonyms include tactless. 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 untactful a common word?

untactful 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.