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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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