1. lacking graciousness - a totally graceless hostess • Syn: unpleasing • Similar to: ungracious • Derivationally related forms: unpleasingness (for: unpleasing) 2. lacking grace; clumsy - a graceless production of the play - "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott • Syn: ungraceful • Similar to: awkward • Derivationally related forms: ungracefulness (for: ungraceful), gracelessness 3. lacking social polish - too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate - their excellent manners always made me feel gauche • Syn: gauche, unpolished • Similar to: inelegant • Derivationally related forms: gracelessness, gaucheness (for: gauche)