ungainly
11ungainly — un|gain|ly [ʌnˈgeınli] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: gainly proper, graceful, pleasing (14 20 centuries), from gain direct, kind, useful (10 19 centuries), from Old Norse gegn] moving in a way that does not look graceful ▪ a tall ungainly… …
12ungainly — adjective moving in a way that does not look graceful: I had been a tall, ungainly teenager with a bad haircut and National Health glasses. ungainliness noun (U) …
13ungainly — adjective they were as ungainly as fifth grade boys taking dance lessons in a foot of snow Syn: awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungraceful, graceless, inelegant, gawky, maladroit, gauche, uncoordinated; archaic lubberly Ant: graceful …
14ungainly — adjective a) clumsy; lacking grace. b) difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy …
15ungainly — Synonyms and related words: all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham… …
16ungainly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. awkward, clumsy; gawky, ungraceful, lumbering; grotesque. See ugliness, unskillfulness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. clumsy, gawky, inexpert; see awkward 1 , rude 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …
17ungainly — un|gain|ly [ ʌn geınli ] adjective not moving in an attractive or graceful way ╾ un|gain|li|ness noun uncount …
18ungainly — un·gain·ly || ÊŒn geɪnlɪ adj. awkward, clumsy, lacking grace …
19ungainly — adjective clumsy; awkward. Derivatives ungainliness noun Origin C17: from un 1 + obs. gainly graceful , based on ON gegn straight …
20ungainly — a. Clumsy, awkward, uncouth, uncourtly, inelegant, clownish, boorish, gawky, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, slouching, ungraceful, stiff …
