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GRACELESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
