moving in a way that is not smooth or attractive synonym awkward笨手笨脚的;(举止)不雅观的,难看的 He was a tall, ungainly boy of 18. 他是个个子高而笨拙的 18 岁小伙子。 I felt very ungainly in the diving suit. 我觉得穿着潜水服很难看。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUngainly is used with these nouns:- walk
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from un- ‘not’ + obsolete gainly ‘graceful’, based on Old Norse gegn ‘straight’.