ungainly

Etymology 1
(from, from + ). Compare dialectal 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Clumsy; lacking grace.
 * 2) * 1962, Edward [Ronald] Weismiller, chapter XI, in The Serpent Sleeping, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, ; republished London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7146-4729-6, page 169:
 * His body, though thin, looked oversized and ungainly, his limbs poorly knit together; he appeared to conquer his tendency to awkwardness by making only the smallest, most deliberate of movements.
 * 1) Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
 * 2)  Unsuitable; unprofitable.
 * 1) * 1962, Edward [Ronald] Weismiller, chapter XI, in The Serpent Sleeping, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, ; republished London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7146-4729-6, page 169:
 * His body, though thin, looked oversized and ungainly, his limbs poorly knit together; he appeared to conquer his tendency to awkwardness by making only the smallest, most deliberate of movements.
 * 1) Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
 * 2)  Unsuitable; unprofitable.
 * 1)  Unsuitable; unprofitable.
 * 1)  Unsuitable; unprofitable.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: desmanyotat
 * Czech:, neohrabaný,
 * French:
 * German:, unansehnlich, unelegant, , ungraziös,
 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: ninipa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: klumsete
 * Plautdietsch: onjeschekjt
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:, , , (person), ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: nepraktický, neohrabaný, ovladatelný
 * Greek:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1)  An ungainly person or thing.

Etymology 2
(from + ).

Adverb

 * 1)  In an ungainly or unbecoming manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.