ungainly

IPA（発音記号）

/ʌnˈɡeɪnli/

形容詞

廃用

Clumsy; lacking grace. / Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy. / (obsolete) Unsuitable; unprofitable.

日本語の意味

不器用な、ぎこちない / 動かしにくい、あるいは扱いにくい / （古語）不適切な、利益が得られない

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The ungainly dancer stumbled through the final steps, but the audience cheered anyway.

その不器用なダンサーは最後のステップでつまずいたが、観客はそれでも歓声を上げた。

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意味（1）

Clumsy; lacking grace.

They being a very ſilly ſort of People, had no other way to ſhew their Spight and Reſentment, than by making Mouths at the Dutch as they paſſed by, and ſometimes Spitting upon them. To break them of that ungainly Cuſtom, we made a reſolution amongſt us, never to let any paſs by that did ſo, whether Old or Young, Man or Woman, without giving them a good Box on the Ear.

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意味（2）

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 […]

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意味（3）

(obsolete) Unsuitable; unprofitable.

And this is the excellency and perfection of a Christian, infinitely above the reach of the proudest moralists; this is the repentance of a Christian, whereby he makes up those defects which were most eminently notorious in the heathen; this is the impression of the humbling spirit, which proud heathen nature was never stamped with, for it was not so much their ignorance in which they offended God,—though that was also full of guilt, as hath been proved,—as their misusing of their knowledge to ungainly ends, as either ambition, superstition, or for satisfying their curiosity, as partly hath, and for the present needs not further to be demonstrated.

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ungainlier （ comparative ）

more ungainly （ comparative ）

ungainliest （ superlative ）

most ungainly （ superlative ）