Middle English Dictionary Entry

ungrāciǒus adj.
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1.
(a) Without grace, out of God’s grace, lacking God’s grace; also in fig. context; (b) ungrateful; also, as noun: those who are ungrateful; (c) wicked, evil; (d) unpleasing, displeasing; also [quot. a1475], ?unattractive; ?unnatural, monstrous; (e) wretched, miserable; unfortunate, regrettable; calamitous, ruinous; of a day: fraught with misfortune, unlucky; (f) harmful, malicious; of speech: unmannerly, rude, crude; (g) unprofitable, useless;—used in transl. of L infelix in plant name; (h) with inf.: ill-favored (to do sth.), unsuccessful (in doing sth.).