Search Result for "ungainly":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. lacking grace in movement or posture;
- Example: "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"
- Example: "clumsy fingers"
- Example: "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"
- Example: "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
[syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]
2. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape;
- Example: "an awkward bundle to carry"
- Example: "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"
- Example: "clumsy wooden shoes"
- Example: "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
[syn: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ungainly \Un*gain"ly\, a. [OE. ungeinliche, adv., fr. ungein inconvenient; un- + Icel. gegn ready, serviceable; adv., against, opposite. See Un- not, and Gain, a., Again.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. [1913 Webster] His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. Unsuitable; unprofitable. [Obs.] --Hammond. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ungainly \Un*gain"ly\, adv. In an ungainly manner. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungainly": all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, sloppy, splay, stiff, uncouth, ungraced, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy
