Word.ws English Dictionary

unballetic

unballetic adjective: not balletic.

Adjective

unballetic (comparative more unballetic, superlative most unballetic)

  1. Not balletic.
    • The dancers express giddy playfulness in terms of exaggeration: overarticulated beats of the feet, flamboyantly oversized port de bras, and patently unballetic shimmies of the shoulder.2006, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations, page 150
    • Ms. Marin uses a deliberately slack, unballetic form; limbs are relaxed rather than stretched and feet are unpointed.2007 October 4, Roslyn Sulcas, “For $10, a Smorgasbord of the Popular and Daring”, in New York Times

Forms of unballetic

comparativemore unballetic
superlativemost unballetic

Origin of unballetic

From un- + balletic.

Questions about unballetic

What does unballetic mean?
Unballetic means not balletic.
What part of speech is unballetic?
Unballetic is an adjective.

Words near unballetic in the dictionary

  1. unballast
  2. unballasted
  3. unballasting
  4. unballasts
  5. unballed
  6. unballetic
  7. unballing
  8. unballoted
  9. unballs
  10. unbalmy
  11. unbalustraded

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unballetic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unballetic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unballetic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.