GRACELESSNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does gracelessness mean?
• GRACELESSNESS (noun)
The noun GRACELESSNESS has 2 senses:
1. an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
2. the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Familiarity information: GRACELESSNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GRACELESSNESS (noun)
Meaning:
An unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
gracelessness; ungracefulness
Hypernyms ("gracelessness" is a kind of...):
awkwardness; clumsiness (the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant)
Meaning:
The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
gracelessness; clumsiness; awkwardness; stiffness
Hypernyms ("gracelessness" is a kind of...):
inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gracelessness"):
woodenness (the quality of being wooden and awkward)
gaucherie; rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)
