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ungainly 音标拼音: [əng'enli] a. 难看的,不象样的,丑陋的 难看的,不象样的,丑陋的 ungainly adj 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" [synonym: {gawky}, {clumsy}, {clunky}, {ungainly}, {unwieldy}] 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" [synonym: {awkward}, {bunglesome}, {clumsy}, {ungainly}] 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] Ungainly \Un*gain"ly\, adv. In an ungainly manner. [1913 Webster] 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
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