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Meaning of "ungainliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNGAINLINESS

ungainliness  [ʌnˈɡeɪnlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNGAINLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ungainliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNGAINLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ungainliness in the English dictionary

The definition of ungainliness in the dictionary is the quality of lacking grace when moving. Other definition of ungainliness is the quality of being difficult to move or use.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNGAINLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
gentlemanliness
ˈdʒɛntəlmənlɪnɪs
gentlewomanliness
ˈdʒɛntəlˌwʊmənlɪnɪs
godliness
ˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
maidenliness
ˈmeɪdənlɪnɪs
manliness
ˈmænlɪnɪs
matronliness
ˈmeɪtrənlɪnɪs
oiliness
ˈɔɪlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
slatternliness
ˈslætənlɪnɪs
slovenliness
ˈslʌvənlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
ungodliness
ʌnˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
user-friendliness
ˌjuːzəˈfrendlɪnɪs
womanliness
ˈwʊmənlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNGAINLINESS

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNGAINLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of ungainliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ungainliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNGAINLINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

ungainliness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ungainliness
570 millions of speakers

English

ungainliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ungainliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغلاظة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ungainliness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ungainliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপাটব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ungainliness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keburukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Plumpheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ungainliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ungainliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ungainliness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ungainliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ungainliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ungainliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ungainliness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ungainliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ungainliness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ungainliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τσιγγουνιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ungainliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ungainliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ungainliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ungainliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGAINLINESS»

The term «ungainliness» is used very little and occupies the 183.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGAINLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ungainliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ungainliness» 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 ungainliness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNGAINLINESS»

Discover the use of ungainliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ungainliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New York Intellectuals Reader
Everyone is aware that Dreiser's prose style is full of roughness and ungainliness , and the critics who admire Dreiser tell us it does not matter. Of course it does not matter. No reader with a right sense of style would suppose that it does matter, ...
Neil Jumonville, 2013
2
Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism
and ungainliness, and the critics who admire Dreiser tell us it does not matter" ([ 1968] 1971, 90). Trilling does not specify the ungainliness of mass culture, though there are numerous moments in the novel, as we shall see, when Clyde's mind ...
Thomas Strychacz, 1993
3
Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry
No one would be struck merely By its ungainliness, Having seen the thing happen. Having seen the thing happen, There would be no intention 'to write it up ,' But all that was happening, The mantis itself only an incident, compelling any writing ...
Louis Zukofsky, 2010
4
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Everyone is aware that Dreiser's prose style is full of roughness and ungainliness , and the critics who admire Dreiser tell us it does not matter. Of course it does not matter. No reader with a right sense of style would suppose that it does matter, ...
Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier, 2008
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A Companion to Poetic Genre
(172). The. Ungainliness. of. the. Sestina. To Cummins, the “metrical pattern is what holds the awkward, elliptical sound of the sestina together . . ., gives it the polish and sheen of a lyric.” However he denies it is a lyric form, but rather sees it as ...
Erik Martiny, 2011
6
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual ...
“It has been taken for granted,” Trilling says, that whoever finds any fault at all in the “roughness and ungainliness” of Dreiser's style “wants a prettified and genteel style (and is objecting to the ungainliness of reality itself).” This, however, “is ...
Phillip Barrish, 2001
7
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents:
Old Javvers has the thing now, and I suppose he is almost as proud of it as I am. It is a masterpiece, Bellows. It has all the silly clumsiness of your pelican, all the solemn want of dignity of your parrot, all the gaunt ungainliness of a flamingo, ...
H.G. Wells, 2014
8
Reconstructing Cultural Memory: Translation, Scripts, Literacy
Translalion and Cultural lmages i 1 } And yet, with all his ungainliness and apparent stupidity there was a glint of malice in his slits of eyes and a sort of ironical cunning about the corners of his mouth. i2l Though, in spite of his ungainliness, ...
International Comparative Literature Association. Congress, Lieven d'. Hulst, John Milton, 2000
9
Lectures to my Students: Second Series, 1889
language the ungainliness of his outer man, thus making the soul triumph over the body. Yet should we ourselves be afflictedwith any fault ofmanner,let us resolve to overcome it, for it is not an impossible task. Edward Irving was a striking ...
Charles H. Spurgeon, Two Sparrows CHS, 2014
10
Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude ...
After an "Ariette badine," she enlists her chorus of frogs and cuckoos to assist her in voicing her love.11 There follows an air in which Platee's ungainliness is underlined by an accompaniment of strings playing chords "marque et detache.
Claude V. Palisca, Nancy Kovaleff Baker, Barbara Russano Hanning, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNGAINLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ungainliness is used in the context of the following news items.
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A lush Zemlinsky highlights Conlon's Ravinia farewell concerts
The ungainliness of some of Brahms' piano writing didn't appear to faze him in the slightest. Conlon and the CSO nailed the score's symphonic grandeur as well ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Bodies Electric
If his project seems to flirt with ungainliness and compositeness, Green himself seems the embodiment of focus, capable of uniting these ideas by his physical ... «Harvard Magazine, Jul 15»
3
All Walrus. All the time.
You can watch the walrus in the waves. Walrus laying on the beach. The ungainliness as the they attempt to transfer between these two states. ALL WALRUS. «Deep-Sea News, May 15»
4
Russell Crowe discovers the place where being a good bloke just …
Overall, though, it winds up as the ungainly best newly minted 1957 movie ... Transfer the kind of ungainliness evident in that as the name for a rock group to the ... «Buffalo.com, Apr 15»
5
The Ladykillers review – classic caper looks a little careworn
... and, though Babych's production is careful to distinguish itself from the original Liverpool Playhouse/West End staging, there's an ungainliness to the action, ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
6
'Sinatra: All or Nothing at All' a sympathetic look at singer
How he got there, and where he went afterward are laid out step by step, point by point, success by failure by success, in a film that, despite some ungainliness, ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
7
Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards
Mr. Egarr compared this trait in Handel to a certain ungainliness in Brahms's writing for piano. And since one movement of the Handel suite was an Air with ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
8
I Believe in Unlikely Role Models
His ungainliness masked a compassion and selflessness beyond that of any human being I've ever met. When my sister was just a baby, she would sit in a high ... «WPSU, Jan 15»
9
London Symphony Orchestra, Program 1 review: Swagger and …
Only in the Gavotte of the third movement with its deliberate heaviness and ungainliness was there a suggestion of gentle irony and exaggeration. In the finale ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 14»
10
'The Lion King' always makes me cry
For example, his “Woman in a Shallow Tub” is heavy with the slight awkwardness of the grooming ritual, that stiff ungainliness we all feel, especially first thing in ... «Washington Post, May 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ungainliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ungainliness>. Apr 2024 ».
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