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graceless
English
Etymology
From Middle English graceles; equivalent to grace +? -less.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?sl?s/
Adjective
graceless (comparative more graceless, superlative most graceless)
- Without grace.
- 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sonnet XXXII, "Equal Troth," in The House of Life, [1]:
- Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love; / For how should I be loved as I love thee? — / I, graceless, joyless, lacking absolutely / All gifts that with thy queenship best behove; — [...]
- 1972, Roland Barthes, "Toys" in Mythologies (1957), translated by Annette Lavers, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, p. 54,
- Current toys are made of a graceless material, the product of chemistry, not of nature.
- 1995, Susan Sontag, "The Art of Fiction No. 143," Interview with Edward Hirsch published in The Paris Review, No. 137, Winter, 1995, p. 7,
- [Hirsch:] Do you mind being called an intellectual? [Sontag:] Well, one never likes to be called anything. [...] I suppose there will always be a presumption of graceless oddity—especially if one is a woman.
- 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sonnet XXXII, "Equal Troth," in The House of Life, [1]:
- Lacking gracefulness
- 1961, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, New York: Signet, p. 64,
- The boy sketched his roughhewn young contadino just in from the fields, naked except for his brache, kneeling to take off his clodhoppers; the flesh tones a sunburned amber, the figure clumsy, with graceless bumpkin muscles; but the face transfused with light as the young lad gazed up at John.
- 1961, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, New York: Signet, p. 64,
- (archaic) Unfortunate.
Synonyms
- clumsy
Antonyms
- graceful
Derived terms
- gracelessly
- gracelessness
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graveless
English
Etymology
grave +? -less
Adjective
graveless (not comparable)
- Without a grave; unburied.
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