gangliness
Long-limbed awkwardness
Gangliness is the quality of being gangly—tall and thin in a way that suggests awkward, loose-limbed movement.
The word often describes adolescents who haven't yet grown into their bodies: He never lost the gangliness of his teenage years.
It implies limbs that seem too long for coordinated motion.
Lacking ease of movement
- gawkyAwkwardly tall and clumsy
- ungracefulLacking elegance in movement
- lankyTall and ungainly thin
- clumsyLacking physical coordination
uncoordinated · maladroit · lumbering · gauche · inelegant · oafish · bumbling · fumbling
Of youth, 13-19
- pubescentSexually maturing
- coltishYouthfully awkward and lively
- sproutingSeeds beginning growth
- ungainlyLacking ease of movement
gawky · developing · maturing · fledgling · unfinished · youthful · lanky · stretching
ungainly
Lacking ease of movement
- gawkyAwkwardly tall and clumsy
- ungracefulLacking elegance in movement
- lankyTall and ungainly thin
clumsy · uncoordinated · maladroit · lumbering · gauche · inelegant · oafish · bumbling · fumbling · coltish
teenage
Of youth, 13-19
ungainly · gawky · developing · maturing · fledgling · unfinished · youthful · lanky · stretching
lanky
Tall and ungainly thin
rangy · stringy · willowy · angular · skeletal · rawboned · thin · slender · wiry · reedy
ganglinesscompactness
State of being compressed
stockiness · sturdiness · squatness · solidity · heftiness
ganglinessgracefulness
Smoothness of movement
grace · elegance · poise · litheness · suppleness