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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ungainly \Un*gain"ly\, adverb In an ungainly manner.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ungainly \Un*gain"ly\, adjective [OE. ungeinliche, adverb, fr. ungein inconvenient; un- + Icel. gegn ready, serviceable; adverb, against, opposite. See {Un-} not, and {Gain}, adjective, {Again}.]
1. Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.
His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. --Macaulay.
2. Unsuitable; unprofitable. [Obs.] --Hammond.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ungainly
adjective
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" [syn: {gawky}, {clumsy}, {clunky}, {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" [syn: {awkward}, {bunglesome}, {clumsy}] [also: {ungainliest}, {ungainlier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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