Definition of "graceless" in English

adjective

1. Without grace.

   • 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.

2. Lacking gracefulness.

3. Without the grace of God.

4. (archaic) Unfortunate.