Ungainly

Definition: Ungainly

Ungainly

Adjective

1. Lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair".

2. Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ungainly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Synonyms: Ungainly

Discourtesy

Repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.

Noun: discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity; uncourteousness;Adjective: rusticity, inurbanity; illiberality, incivility displacency.

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Crosswords: Ungainly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "ungainly": ungainly-looking.

Albanian

ngalakaq (pudding-head, sad, slowcoach, slowpoke), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, unmannerly, wild), ‏تعوزه البراعة (maladroit), ‏صعب المراس (awkward, churlish, indocile, intractable, problem, sticky, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, unhappy, wooden), ‏بشع (atrocious, grasping, grievous, gruesome, hideous, homely, horrid, shapeless, ugly, unhandsome, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, rude, shambling, stodgy, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy), некрасив (unshapely), непохватен (artless, awkward, bumbling, chuckle, clumsy, gawky, heavy, lubberly, two-fisted, uncouth, unhandy, unskilful), неизящен (inelegant, inurbane, ungraceful). (various references)

Czech

neobratný (clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, unskillful), nemotorný (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, oafish, unskillful), klátivý. (various references)

Farsi 

ناازموده (Chicken, Clumsy, Fresh, Simple, Untried), زمخت وغیرجذاب , زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), بیحاصل (Lean), بی لطف (Bald), بدون سود. (various references)

French

gauche (unhappy), disgracieux (unhandsome, unruly, unsightly), dégingandé. (various references)

German

unbeholfen (awkward, clumsy, gauche, gauchely, gawky, helpless, inept, putter, uncouth, unskilful, unskilfully, unskillful, unskillfully, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Greek 

άκομψοσ (frampy, gauche, Hull, inelegant, slob, slouch, sloughy), ανοικονόμητοσ (unmanageable, untractable, unwieldy), αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, unhandy, unskillful). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ושם (awkward, burly, clown, clumsy, gawky, gross, hulking, uncouth, unwieldy), מסורבל (awkward, clumsy, complicated, hulking, maladroit). (various references)

Hungarian

félszeg (awkward, gauche, graceless, lopsided, shy, ungraceful). (various references)

Italian

sgraziato (awkward, clumsy, gawky, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ungraceful), goffo (awkward, clumsy, cubbish, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, hobbledehoy, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, unhandy). (various references)

Manx

staghyllagh (blundering). (various references)

Pig Latin

ainlyungay.(various references)

Portuguese

desgracioso (awkward, ungraceful, ungracious, unhandsome), deselegante (crude, dowdy, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, shapeless, uncomely, ungraceful, unhandsome), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Romanian

stângaci (artless, awkward, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), neîndemânatic (awkward, awkwardly, buckram, butter fingers, butter-fingered, clumsily, clumsy, fumbling, gawky, inapt, left handed, lubberly, maladroit, uncouth, unskilful, unversed), greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, massy, ponderous, slow, stodgy, stolid, ungraceful, unwieldy, weighty), dizgraţios (disagreeable, disgraceful, displeasing, ungraceful, unsightly), diform (deformed, disproportionate, enormous, hulking, miscreated, misshapen, shapeless). (various references)

Russian 

неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gangly, gawky, goon, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lout, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, uncouth, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), неловкий (awkward, blundering, cack-handed, clumsy, gauche, gawky, heavy-handed, maladroit, self conscious, self-conscious, uneasy, ungraceful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezgrapan (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, gangling, gauche, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, unhandy, unwieldy), neunosan (profitless, unfruitful, unprofitable), neokretan (awkward). (various references)

Spanish

desgarbado (awkward, gawky, slovenly, unlovely). (various references)

Swedish

otymplig, klumpig (awkward, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, uncouth, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Turkish

sakar (awkward, butterfingered, clumsy, gawky, heavy-handed, left handed, maladroit, oaf, sacchar-, unhandy), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), hırpani (dowdy, seedy, shabby, slatternly, sleazy, unkempt), biçimsiz (amorphous, distorted, formless, ill shaped, misshapen, off form, out of trim, rambling, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, ugly, unformed, unshapely). (various references)

Ukrainian

незграбно (angularly, artlessly, awkwardly, heavily, lefthandedly, lubberly, splay), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, unskilful, wooden). (various references)

Welsh

afrosgo (clumsy, unwieldy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Ungainly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ongoingly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: unlaying.

-2 letters: annuli, gainly, guanin, laying, lingua, lungan, lungyi, nilgau, unnail.

-3 letters: algin, align, annul, gaily, ginny, gunny, inlay, liang, ligan, linga, lingy, lungi, lying, unlay, yulan.

-4 letters: agin, agly, anil, ayin, gain, gaun, glia, guan, iglu, inly, lain, lang, ling, linn, liny, luna, lung, luny, nail, ugly, ulan, ulna, unai, yagi, yang, yuan, yuga.

+2 letters: dauntingly, hauntingly, sanguinely, tauntingly, unfadingly, vauntingly.

+3 letters: flauntingly, unceasingly, underlaying, unfailingly, unsparingly.

+4 letters: astoundingly, inexpugnably, meaningfully, nauseatingly, sanguinarily, unavailingly, unchangingly, underplaying, unflaggingly, unimaginably, unwaveringly.

+5 letters: encouragingly, infuriatingly, insinuatingly, languishingly, magnanimously, outstandingly, unappealingly, undeviatingly, unfalteringly, unreasoningly.