gangling

1. 1.

   tall and thin and having long slender limbs

   “a gangling teenager”

   “a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man”

   Synonymsganglylankyrangy

   Similartall
2. 2.

   tall and thin

   Synonymsganglylanky

   Similarthin

Other forms of gangling

comparative

ganglinger·

superlative

ganglingest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gangling

What does gangling mean?

gangling means "tall and thin and having long slender limbs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gangling?

gangling has 2 syllables: gan-gling. The stress falls on "gan".

What is another word for gangling?

Close synonyms include gangly, lanky, rangy, gangly, lanky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gangling a common word?

gangling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.