Word Meanings - UNGAINLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

un- + Icel. gegn ready, serviceable; adv., against, opposite. See Un- 1. Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. Macaulay. 2. Unsuitable;

Additional info about word: UNGAINLY

un- + Icel. gegn ready, serviceable; adv., against, opposite. See Un- 1. Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. Macaulay. 2. Unsuitable; unprofitable. Hammond.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNGAINLY)

• Awkward
• Ungainly
• clownish
• clumsy
• maladroit
• unhandy
• uncouth
• rough
• boorish
• bungling
• gawky
• Gawky
• ungainly
• Misproportioned
• ill-shaped
• Ugly
• Loathsome
• hideous
• hateful
• frightful
• ill-favored
• unsightly
• ill-looking
• plain
• homely
• deformed
• monstrous
• Uncouth
• Odd
• unseemly
• ward
• ungraceful
• strange
• underbred

Related words: (words related to UNGAINLY)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• AWKWARD SQUAD
  A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• BUNGLING
  Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• ROUGHTAIL
  Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.