ungraceful

Examples

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• Even at that ungraceful age, not yet a woman and no longer a girl, Blanca was pretty.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Her ungraceful miscalculation angered her, and it brought a high flush to her cheeks, a flush the color of Fedora's Crimson Glories.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Time, however, is ungraceful to the body.

  Fiction book (1995)

• ... the circular islands at the north and south ends are ungraceful...

  Blog text (2)

• And we have started planting as you can see by this very ungraceful pan here that we're almost done with this row.

• My motions are stiff and uneasy, ungraceful, and my attention is unsteady and irregular.

  Academic text (1996)

• Where I had expected an ungraceful woman-child, I instead found a mannerly but almost distant professional—was she embarrassed to need a tutor?

  Fiction book (1995)

• Her attempt to dance was ungraceful, making her feel embarrassed in front of the audience.

• The toddler took ungraceful steps as he tried to walk for the first time.

• Despite his ungraceful landing, the gymnast managed to finish his routine.

Synonyms

A

awkward

vsungraceful

33 3.0

Not graceful in movement or action

focuses on missing elegance and smoothness in movement or form

C

clumsy

vsungraceful

21 3.2

Saying or writing things in an awkward, not skillful way that causes embarrassment

highlights absence of elegance and smooth movement rather than mere ineptness

I

inelegant

vsungraceful

5 4.9

Not graceful or pleasing in style

is about absence of smooth elegant movement or form rather than mere poor taste

G

gawky

vsungraceful

5 6.5

Moving or standing in a clumsy way

focuses on lacking elegance and smoothness rather than posture alone

U

ungainly

vsungraceful

4 7.3

Moving or looking awkward and clumsy

emphasizes lack of smooth elegant movement rather than being physically awkward

G

graceless

vsungraceful

4 4.6

Awkward and clumsy in movement or social behavior

focuses on missing smoothness in physical movement or visible form

C

cumbersome

vsungraceful

4 7.1

Awkward and hard to read or listen to because of long, heavy language

focuses on lack of physical smoothness in movement or form rather than wording

Antonyms

E

elegant

165 3.3

Having an attractive, stylish look that shows good taste

G

graceful

87 2.8

Movement that is smooth and attractive like a dancer or swan

Compounds

U

ungraceful exit

6.1

A way of leaving that looks clumsy and embarrassing

How Graceful

elegant

165 3.3

graceful

87 2.8

inelegant

5 4.9

ungraceful

1 4.9

awkward

33 3.0

clumsy

73 1.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology