- Types Of Speech
- You can use ungainly as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Ungainly
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters a, g, i, l, n, u, and y, 5 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ai. Ungainly starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters u, un, ung, unga, ungai, and the ending characters are y, ly, nly, inly, ainly, ..
- Definition
- 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"
- Origin/Roots
- Old Norse
- School Grade
- Ungainly is set as a sat word that starts with u, ends with y, 3 syllables, 3 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Ungainly in Pig Latin is said as "ungainlyay or ungainlyway".
- Unigram
- u | n | g | a | i | n | l | y
- Bigram
- un | ng | ga | ai | in | nl | ly
- Trigram
- ung | nga | gai | ain | inl | nly
- Quadrigram
- unga | ngai | gain | ainl | inly
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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" - 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 | Definition |
|---|---|
| All Thumbs | |
| Apartment | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
| Arachnidian | relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida |
| Arachnoid | air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs |
| Artificial | artificially formal "that artificial humility that her husband hated" "contrived coyness" "a stilted letter of acknowledgment" "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" |
| Awkward | not at ease socially unsure and constrained in manner "awkward and reserved at parties" "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know" "was always uneasy with strangers" |
| Bloated | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas "hungry children with bloated stomachs" "he had a grossly distended stomach" "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids" "swollen hands" "tumescent tissue" "puffy tumid flesh" |
| Blunderheaded | |
| Blundering | |
| Bombastic | ostentatiously lofty in style "a man given to large talk" "tumid political prose" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Ungainly
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ungainly | 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" |
View English words with the unique letters used in ungainly. Words With The Letters Agilnuy
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Awkward | not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know"; "was always uneasy with strangers" |
Ungainly Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With U
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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