Meaning of Ungainly | Babel Free
ʌnˈɡeɪnliEquivalents
العربية
أخرق
Български
тромав
Bosanski
Kaba
Français
maladroit
Hrvatski
Kaba
日本語
不器用
Polski
niezgrabny
Српски
Kaba
Українська
незграбний
Examples
“I was completely subdued:—hungry, cold, wet⟳, and chilled, outside and inside, with the weather, and the place⟳, and the people,—but that's a bull, for I saw⟳ nobody except two ungainly country footmen, and a fat groom of the chambers who took me to my room, and assigned me one of the ungainlies as valet.”
“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.”
“She'd never ridden him so fast, and the elation she felt was breathtaking. He was also lapping half the other horses; only the gray was ahead of him. One of the ungainlies came off, and there was a pile-up of horses in one corner, but she, the gray, and the brown mare avoided it neatly.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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