differences between disgraceful and graceless

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Hello,
Is there a difference between graceless and disgraceful since both are adjective.
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Hello,
Is there a difference between "graceless" and "disgraceful" since both are adjectives?
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See my amendments above. It's important to mark out the words you are querying in some way. I have done so by putting quotation marks around them. You needed a question mark at the end of your question.

Let us know what definitions you find once you've looked the words up.
 

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Yes, there is. Many headwords can give rise to more than one adjective, and in most cases this is because they offer different shades of meaning.
 

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Yes, there is. Many headwords can give rise to more than one adjective, and in most cases this is because they offer different shades of meaning.

By "headword" can I assume you mean "grace"? (See below.)
 

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A: That person's dancing was disgraceful.
B: Don't you mean "graceless"?
A: That's right.

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A:That person"s behavior was graceless.
B: Don't you mean "disgraceful"?
A: That's right.
 
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