What are the antonyms for UNGAINLY?
- dexterous, agile, adroit, elegant, contradiction, nimble, convenient, handy, practicable, absurdity, clever, useful, coordinated, nonsense, paradox, wieldy, demonstration, serviceable, practical, graceful, functional, skilful, sophism.
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Synonyms for UNGAINLY
- call for,
- klutzy,
- come,
- halfwitted,
- blunderer,
- uncouth,
- Obtainer,
- ham-fisted,
- ineptly,
- cavalier,
- having two left hands,
- rickety,
- Unhandy,
- bearish,
- warrant,
- coarse,
- unneighborly,
- grody,
- loutish,
- ominously,
- bumbling,
- chunky,
- clear,
- rough,
- gawky,
- acquisitions,
- all thumbs,
- ineffectually,
- acquisition,
- not agile,
- come by,
- gainst,
- elephantine,
- procurement,
- massive,
- agency,
- ill manners,
- bad manners,
- carry out,
- bulky,
- be all fingers and thumbs,
- blunderheaded,
- jarring,
- Sinisterly,
- ungraceful,
- lumpish,
- carelessly,
- lumbering,
- clearly,
- cloddish,
- distinctly,
- approximately,
- lanky,
- accept,
- illbred,
- butterfingers,
- management,
- assume,
- deliver,
- apparently,
- angular,
- Blundering,
- obtainment,
- inexpert,
- bovine,
- fill,
- easy,
- unskilled,
- lead-footed,
- unhandily,
- accident-prone,
- severely,
- stupidly,
- ungracefully,
- unimpassioned,
- deadpan,
- conquest,
- attainment,
- acquire,
- openly,
- having two left feet,
- adversely,
- stilted,
- brusque,
- direct,
- brutal,
- unaccommodating,
- incompetently,
- inadequately,
- dry,
- ill-bred,
- rusticity,
- get,
- perversely,
- grossly,
- clumsily,
- ill-shaped,
- patently,
- cumbersome,
- disingenuously,
- loud-mouthed,
- inept,
- uncoordinated,
- ungallant,
- obtain,
- wooden,
- consume,
- spiritless,
- Overtly,
- doddering,
- unnatural,
- convulsive,
- two left feet,
- hulking,
- conquer,
- proxy,
- crudely,
- gruff,
- gauche,
- property,
- receive,
- ill-chosen,
- careless,
- fumbling,
- illiberality,
- unadept,
- Disgracious,
- involve,
- rigid,
- stiff,
- oversized,
- inapt,
- inelegantly,
- discover,
- awkward,
- coarsely,
- hulky,
- large,
- jerky,
- like a bull in a china shop,
- incompetent,
- roughly,
- plainly,
- rugged,
- ungentle,
- Butter-fingered,
- purchase,
- hard,
- ineffectively,
- dead,
- halting,
- untalented,
- blunt,
- accomplishment,
- austere,
- Ox-like,
- anxious,
- clumsy,
- blunderous,
- fidgety,
- inelegant,
- repulsive,
- expressionless,
- uneasy,
- discourtesy,
- rudely,
- procure,
- engage,
- procurer,
- flat-footed,
- ability,
- unanimated,
- inconveniently,
- empty,
- contrive,
- Ungraced,
- heavy-footed,
- inaptly,
- science,
- handless,
- bunglesome,
- compare,
- unskillfully,
- chalk up,
- ruggedly,
- robotic,
- inefficiently,
- cack-handed,
- Uncourtly,
- film,
- impotent,
- sticky,
- Gains,
- vacant,
- Inaffable,
- incapable,
- artificial,
- unmanageable,
- maladroit,
- get hold of,
- sloppily,
- clodhopper,
- Lumping,
- unpleasing,
- meanly,
- achievement,
- heavily,
- clumsy-fisted,
- unenviable,
- boorish,
- unwieldy,
- Insuavity,
- graceless,
- fetch,
- unsightly,
- ugly,
- scholarship,
- acquirement,
- Clodhopping,
- convey,
- not fitting,
- conduct,
- gawkish,
- ponderous,
- badly,
- awfully,
- maliciously,
- colourless,
- heavy-handed,
- bungler,
- Procuration,
- clownish,
- undexterous,
- voluminous,
- cranky,
- Blunderingly,
- gross,
- head-strong,
- rustic,
- sloppy,
- bluff,
- passionless,
- lowbred,
- manifestly,
- crude,
- detect,
- Clumpy,
- splay,
- rustically,
- restless,
- bungling,
- bring,
- evidently,
- harsh,
- buy,
- slouching,
- awkwardly,
- butterfingered,
- poorly,
- left-hand,
- Uncomplaisant,
- Inurbanity,
- embarrassingly,
- Uncourteousness,
- Ungenteel,
- guide,
- oafish,
- left-handed,
- rude,
- heavy,
- stern,
- ponderously,
- klutz,
- clunky,
- lubberly,
- ingest,
- ham-handed,
- churlish,
- embarrassing,
- obviously,
- exact,
- maladroitly,
- cumbrous,
- inefficient,
- lifeless,
- choose,
- impassive,
- unskilful,
- consider,
- cumbersomely,
- collect.
Usage Examples for UNGAINLY
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When I was a child I was taught to remember these by the ungainly word formed by the initials of the colours, " Vibgyor." - "Amusements in Mathematics" by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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The boy was strong and swift, the girl stout and ungainly in her movements, not mistress of her body; he caught her and twisted her arm, roughly- Janet could hear her cries through the window- when an elderly woman entered, seized him, struggling with him. - "The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete" by Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009
