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PRONUNCIATION OF UNGAINLIEST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNGAINLIEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ungainliest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNGAINLIEST

ungag
ungain
ungainful
ungainlier
ungainliness
ungainly
ungainsayable
ungallant
ungallantly
ungarbed
ungarbled
Ungaretti
ungarmented
ungarnered
ungarnished
ungartered
ungated
ungathered
ungauged

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNGAINLIEST

artiest
at the earliest
chilliest
costliest
deadliest
earliest
friendliest
godliest
holiest
jolliest
liveliest
loneliest
loveliest
lowliest
manliest
sightliest
silliest
sliest
smelliest
timeliest
ugliest

Synonyms and antonyms of ungainliest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNGAINLIEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ungainliest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ungainliest

Translation of «ungainliest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNGAINLIEST

Find out the translation of ungainliest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ungainliest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ungainliest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ungainliest
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ungainliest
570 millions of speakers

English

ungainliest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ungainliest
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ungainliest
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ungainliest
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ungainliest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ungainliest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ungainliest
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paling tidak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ungainliest
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ungainliest
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ungainliest
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ungainliest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ungainliest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ungainliest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतुलनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ungainliest
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ungainliest
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ungainliest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ungainliest
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ungainliest
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ungainliest
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ungainliest
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ungainliest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ungainliest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ungainliest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGAINLIEST»

The term «ungainliest» is used very little and occupies the 182.414 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGAINLIEST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ungainliest» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ungainliest» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ungainliest

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNGAINLIEST»

Discover the use of ungainliest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ungainliest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Odd Fellow's Companion: Devoted to the Interests of the ...
It is always something else—a headache, or a cold, or “I'm tired," or “ Don't tease me,” or “ Nothing," majestically—when asked the reason for that icy perch; never a frank confession of bein on the top of the ungainliest, crossest-grained brute in  ...
‎1870
2
Reading Victorian Poetry
Colossal ugliness may fascinate If something be expressed; and time adopts Ungainliest stone and brick and ruins them To beauty; but a building lacking life, A house that must not mellow or decay? – 'Tis nature's outcast. (28–35) On the face ...
Richard Cronin, 2012
3
Philosophy of Nature
Even the ungainliest of animals do not stumble so often as man'.4 Hegel then proceeds to draw the conclusion that physical is necessarily gained at the expense of spiritual ability, 'When people acquire spiritual and other kinds of aptitudes, ...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Michael John Petry, 1970
4
New York Magazine
Wildebeest also travel in packs, posing long enough for onlookers to marvel at God's ungainliest creation. The park is also populated with baboons, ostriches, and the- extremely rare black rhinoceros, its number almost decimated by poachers.
5
God's Perfect Scar
He had little time to ruminate when the ungainliest of guardian angels materialized above. Its wings were fluttering as madly as a hummingbird's, rendering them virtually invisible. But the ungodly racket - this angel was as noisy as a sheet ...
Mike Johnson, 2008
6
The Grizzly King
... it brought a scent that held Thor motionless in his tracks for perhaps half a minute, and then set him off on that ambling run which is the ungainliest gait of all four-footed creatures. Muskwa rolled after him like a ball, pegging away for dear life, ...
7
The Research Magnificent:
"It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that ever scared the motor- bicycles on the Northampton Road. It will have the legs and stride of an ostrich. It will throw its feet out like dealing cards. It will lift its head and look the sun in the eye ...
H. G. Wells
8
Life and Progress in Australasia
... 1' 'i Q i 'I Thou art not beautiful, I tell thee plainly, Oh ! thou ungainliest of things ungainly." Still, despite this ungainliness, pearl fishers, prospectors, and many more THE ABORIGINES 37.
Michael Davitt, 2011
9
Acting Smart: Your Ticket to Showbiz
There is this designer who could do drapes like no one else. He could make the ungainliest of actresses look like goddesses. The problem was that he also gossiped incessantly. Safety pins stuffed in his mouth, he would tuck, drape and pleat ...
Tisca Chopra, 2014
10
Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and ...
It doesn't matter what—the ungainliest thing: a mutt, ourselves, the world. The love depends on the precision.” Love, apparently, is still around but now captured in the arts by their precision, their exactitude, their meticulousness in plumbing the ...
Bennett Reimer, 2009

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNGAINLIEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ungainliest is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Fed Is Weird. Get Over It.
The Federal Reserve System is a strange, ungainly beast. Its strangest and ungainliest appendages are the regional Federal Reserve Banks, 12 technically ... «Bloomberg View, Mar 15»
2
Royal Ballet triple bill, Royal Opera House, London
The Royal Ballet's current triple bill of Serenade, Sweet Violets and DGV is an ungainly thing with, at its heart, the ungainliest thing. Balanchine's visionary ... «Financial Times, May 14»
3
A celebrity appearance on the red carpet is all about branding and …
Dress design seems to inspire the most insipid, as well as the gangliest and ungainliest, of celebrity poses. The classic, coy over-the-shoulder shot that has ... «The Independent, May 14»
4
New car review: Ssangyong Rodius Turismo
Some considered SsangYong's Rodius Britain's ungainliest car. Its successor, the Turismo, has been comprehensively modernised, as Andy Enright reports. «Derby Telegraph, Nov 13»
5
If it wasn't for Speidi, Rylan would still be that annoying one off The X …
Some of us saw Rylan's full potential when he crumbled at Nicole Scherzinger's feet in the most ungainliest of ways during the Judges' Houses stage of X Factor ... «Metro, Jan 13»
6
15 All-Time Greatest Offensive Seasons by a Pitcher
A hit by the pitcher is a blow for the common man—a confirmation that, if given enough opportunities, even the ungainliest of athletes can run his bat into a major ... «Bleacher Report, Dec 11»
7
Honest Abe, reborn
... and white “mutt” on national television, so Lincoln good-humouredly adjusted to the consensus description of himself as one of the ungainliest men in politics. «Economist, Jan 09»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ungainliest [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ungainliest>. May 2024 ».
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