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say it: uhn-GAYN-lee
ungainly is an adjective meaning "lacking grace in movement or posture". It is pronounced /ənˈɡeɪnli/ — uhn-GAYN-lee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ungainly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.