GRACELESSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Synonyms:

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)

Derivation:

graceless (lacking social polish)

graceless (lacking grace; clumsy)

Meaning:

An unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression

Synonyms:

gracelessness; ungracefulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("gracelessness" is a kind of...):

awkwardness; clumsiness (the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant)