What is another word for ungainly?
435 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʌnɡˈe͡ɪnli], [ ʌnɡˈeɪnli], [ ʌ_n_ɡ_ˈeɪ_n_l_i]
Ungainly is typically used to describe someone or something that is awkward, clumsy, or awkward looking. If you need synonyms for this word, there are many options to choose from. Clumsy, inelegant, awkward, uncoordinated, ungallant, and graceless are all commonly used words to describe individuals who seem ungraceful or unskilled in their movements. Other synonyms include bumbling, ungovernable, unwieldy, ponderous, and lumbering, although these words may also carry additional connotations like being unmanageable or difficult to control. Alternatively, to describe something that is unsightly or ungainly in appearance, you could use the terms unsightly, unattractive, grotesque, or monstrous.
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Similar words for ungainly:
- awkward (adjective)
- clumsy (adjective)
- crude (adjective)
- cumbersome (adjective)
- gawky (adjective)
- graceless (adjective)
- inelegant (adjective)
- lumbering (adjective)
- oafish (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- rustic (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- uncoordinated (adjective)
- uncouth (adjective)
- ungraceful (adjective)
- wooden (adjective)
- bunglesome (noun)
- clumsy (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- boorish
- clumsy
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ungainly:
adj.
• awkward (adjective)- un-gainlier,
- un-gainly,
- un gainlier,
- un fit,
- most stumbling,
- un-handy,
- un gainliest,
- more blundering,
- un-polished,
- in competent,
- un-skilled,
- un skillful,
- most blundering,
- un skilled,
- un-gainliest,
- un-skillful,
- un refined,
- more floundering,
- more butterfingers,
- un-fit,
- un polished,
- un-handiest,
- most floundering,
- in expert,
- un-refined,
- most butterfingers,
- in-competent,
- unhandier,
- un-handier,
- un handiest,
- more stumbling,
- unhandiest,
- un gainly,
- stumbling,
- in-expert,
- green,
- un handier,
- un handy.
- in decent,
- ill bred,
- grodiest,
- un enlightened,
- most barnyard,
- in-decent,
- un-enlightened,
- more loud mouthed,
- most ill bred,
- indecent,
- more ill-bred,
- most loud mouthed,
- more ill bred,
- most ill-bred,
- in delicate,
- in sensible,
- most illbred,
- more cloddish,
- more lowbred,
- more loud-mouthed,
- most lowbred,
- in-delicate,
- most cloddish,
- in-sensible,
- most loud-mouthed,
- more illbred,
- grodier,
- more barnyard,
- loud mouthed.
- un-cultured,
- un-mannered,
- un happiest,
- in-felicitous,
- un mannered,
- in-decorous,
- clunkiest,
- un-happy,
- un happy,
- un fortunate,
- ill mannered,
- in decorous,
- un cultured,
- un happier,
- clunkier,
- illmannered,
- in felicitous,
- un-fortunate.
- gawkish,
- lowbred,
- having two left hands,
- illbred,
- inelegant,
- ill-bred,
- having two left feet,
- Unhandy,
- rustic,
- ungraceful,
- gawky,
- cumbrous,
- wooden,
- uncouth,
- crude,
- loud-mouthed,
- head-strong,
- splay,
- unwieldy,
- Disgracious,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- awkward,
- stiff,
- klutzy,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clunky,
- all thumbs,
- cloddish,
- two left feet,
- unadept,
- butterfingered,
- uncoordinated,
- grody,
- undexterous,
- Ungenteel,
- ill-shaped,
- blunderous,
- graceless,
- untalented.
- most unrelaxed,
- un-natural,
- in tractable,
- un relaxed,
- un relenting,
- more unrelaxed,
- hardheaded,
- in-tractable,
- in flexible,
- un-relaxed,
- unrelaxed,
- in-flexible,
- most hardheaded.
- un seemly,
- un civilized,
- most disgracious,
- un couth,
- un-seemliest,
- most ungenteel,
- un seemliest,
- dis courteous,
- more disgracious,
- dis-gracious,
- un gentlemanly,
- un-gentlemanly,
- dis-courteous,
- more ungenteel,
- uncalledfor,
- un civil,
- un-civil,
- un-couth,
- dis gracious,
- un-civilized,
- un genteel,
- un-seemlier,
- un seemlier,
- un-genteel.
n.
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- ability.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- jarring,
- stilted,
- flat-footed,
- doddering,
- heavy-handed,
- butterfingers,
- klutz,
- awkwardly,
- jerky,
- robotic,
- accident-prone,
- convulsive,
- clodhopper,
- halting.
- rude.
- rudely,
- warrant,
- spiritless,
- detect,
- anxious,
- compare,
- crudely,
- deliver,
- hard,
- unanimated,
- careless,
- voluminous,
- engage,
- evidently,
- get hold of,
- collect,
- inelegantly,
- ineptly,
- sloppy,
- attainment,
- ungracefully,
- incapable,
- gauche,
- come by,
- roughly,
- manifestly,
- conquer,
- Insuavity,
- ungentle,
- lifeless,
- accomplishment,
- embarrassingly,
- inefficient,
- sticky,
- coarse,
- severely,
- consume,
- austere,
- unimpassioned,
- brusque,
- get,
- blunderheaded,
- gruff,
- rugged,
- convey,
- unskilful,
- ugly,
- brutal,
- discourtesy,
- ruggedly,
- conduct,
- slouching,
- consider,
- Ox-like,
- bovine,
- oafish,
- massive,
- illiberality,
- bungling,
- science,
- colourless,
- disingenuously,
- Overtly,
- carelessly,
- heavily,
- contrive,
- left-handed,
- grossly,
- plainly,
- fill,
- dry,
- come,
- procurement,
- call for,
- ungallant,
- badly,
- embarrassing,
- inadequately,
- ill-chosen,
- patently,
- ponderously,
- fidgety,
- chalk up,
- chunky,
- clearly,
- exact,
- repulsive,
- procurer,
- Butter-fingered,
- cack-handed,
- rustically,
- Blunderingly,
- carry out,
- blunt,
- Clumpy,
- ineffectually,
- inefficiently,
- maliciously,
- management,
- rickety,
- adversely,
- choose,
- openly,
- boorish,
- restless,
- fetch,
- incompetently,
- agency,
- Sinisterly,
- ominously,
- inapt,
- stern,
- distinctly,
- churlish,
- vacant,
- buy,
- bring,
- Lumping,
- acquisitions,
- receive,
- deadpan,
- cumbersome,
- clear,
- unhandily,
- unsightly,
- obtainment,
- rigid,
- assume,
- proxy,
- perversely,
- purchase,
- achievement,
- Procuration,
- bumbling,
- pimp,
- artificial,
- inept,
- ham-handed,
- direct,
- poorly,
- unenviable,
- Obtainer,
- stupidly,
- Gains,
- meanly,
- hulking,
- left-hand,
- Ungraced,
- inconveniently,
- bad manners,
- accept,
- sloppily,
- approximately,
- unaccommodating,
- hulky,
- ineffectively,
- maladroitly,
- ingest,
- blunderer,
- scholarship,
- apparently,
- ill manners,
- passionless,
- Inaffable,
- handless,
- incompetent,
- impassive,
- Inurbanity,
- Uncomplaisant,
- clumsy-fisted,
- Blundering,
- obviously,
- empty,
- oversized,
- harsh,
- inaptly,
- bearish,
- film,
- large,
- cavalier,
- cumbersomely,
- acquisition,
- unskillfully,
- coarsely,
- not fitting,
- procure,
- involve,
- discover,
- dead,
- conquest,
- guide,
- ponderous,
- unneighborly,
- gross,
- clumsily,
- uneasy,
- unpleasing,
- acquire,
- expressionless,
- cranky,
- bungler,
- unnatural,
- bluff,
- rusticity,
- ham-fisted,
- awfully,
- obtain,
- gainst,
- unskilled,
- impotent,
- rough,
- fumbling,
- Uncourteousness,
- acquirement.
How to use "Ungainly" in context?
Synonyms for "ungainly" would be "lanky", "slender", or "narrow". These words all describe someone who is not tall or thin, but instead has an ungainly or toned down body figure. Another word for ungainly is "clumsy". Someone who is ungainly might have unusually long or short limbs, or might have a body that isn't perfectly symmetrical. Someone who is clumsy might knock things over or make a mess in general.
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