| Pronunciation: | | un'greyshus
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [adj] lacking social graces
- [adj] lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city"; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior"
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UNGRACIOUS is a 10 letter word that starts with U. |
| | Synonyms: | | churlish, discourteous, graceless, impolite, unpleasing |
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| | Antonyms: | | gracious |
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| | See Also: | | unrefined |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Un*gra"cious\, a.
1. Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without
good will; unfeeling. --Shak.
2. Having no grace; graceless; wicked. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable;
not favored.
Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as
ungracious at Oxford as at London. --Clarendon.
-- {Un*gra"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Un*gra"cious*ness}, n.
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