not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
adverb
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in an awkward manner.
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Ungainlyis always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Origin: 1150–1200; (adv.) Middle English ungeinliche, equivalent to un-un-1 + later Middle English geyn straight, well-disposed, handy (< Old Norse gegn straight, direct; compare Old Norse ūgegn unreasonable) + -liche-ly; (adj.) un-1 + obsolete gainly proper, becoming, gracious, Middle English gaynlych (geyn as above + -lych-ly); compare gainly, again