ungainly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Clumsy; lacking grace.

   “There is but little tenderness in her manner to Celia, who is played by Miss Ione Bourke with very great simplicity and taste, though she has the disadvantage of being taller and in every way ungainlier than Rosalind, which is just the reverse of Shakespeare's intention.”

2. sıfat Gangling
3. sıfat Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.

   “My lady brought with her from England a most profane instrument, a lute of ungainlie height, at which Master Higginson looketh doubtfully as if it were an instrument of sin, and methinketh Mistresses Mary and Elizabeth Fenwick thinketh it also […]”

4. sıfat Unsuitable; unprofitable.

   “For as she could not, alas, select / Twixt ye goodlie and ungainlie, / Why of course 'twas Actions must direct / Her goode opinion,—mainlie.”

5. isim An ungainly person or thing.

   “Long lists resulting from the listing technique will often become short poems after you and the student writer's classmates help cull out the unnecessaries, the ungainlies, and the unworthies.”

6. zarf In an ungainly or unbecoming manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.