ungainliness
Lack of grace
Ungainliness is the quality of being clumsy, awkward, or lacking grace in movement or form.
It suggests a body or thing that doesn't move smoothly or fit together well: the ungainliness of a newborn foal, the ungainliness of the sprawling addition to the house.
The word can extend to social awkwardness or inelegant expression.
Lack of physical grace
- awkwardnessLack of grace or ease
- gawkinessClumsy, awkward manner
- lumberingMoving heavily and awkwardly
- stumblingWalking clumsily, almost falling
fumbling · uncoordination · oafishness · gracelessness · maladroitness · klutziness · stiffness · shambling
Absence of elegance
- gauchenessSocial ineptitude
- artlessnessSincere, unfeigned manner
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
unsophistication · roughness · clumsiness · stiffness · tactlessness · indelicacy · rusticity · unrefinement
Quality of being awkward
- cumbersomenessDifficult to manage quality
- ponderousnessQuality of being cumbersomely heavy
- heftPerceived mass, substance
- massivenessExtreme largeness in scale
heaviness · bulk · largeness · bigness · girth · thickness · clunkiness · stoutness
clumsiness
Lack of physical grace
- awkwardnessLack of grace or ease
- gawkinessClumsy, awkward manner
- lumberingMoving heavily and awkwardly
stumbling · fumbling · uncoordination · oafishness · gracelessness · maladroitness · klutziness · stiffness · shambling · galumphing
ungracefulness
Absence of elegance
- gauchenessSocial ineptitude
- artlessnessSincere, unfeigned manner
- crudenessLack of sophistication
coarseness · unsophistication · roughness · clumsiness · stiffness · tactlessness · indelicacy · rusticity · unrefinement · boorishness
unwieldiness
Quality of being awkward
- cumbersomenessDifficult to manage quality
- ponderousnessQuality of being cumbersomely heavy
- heftPerceived mass, substance
massiveness · heaviness · bulk · largeness · bigness · girth · thickness · clunkiness · stoutness · solidity
- clumsinessclumsiness, clumsy, awkwardness, fumble, stumble
- physical clumsinessclumsiness, awkwardness, stumbling, fumbling, gracelessness
- clunkinessawkwardness, bulkiness, clumsiness, unwieldiness, chunkiness
- uglinessugliness, unattractiveness, unsightliness, hideousness, homeliness
ungainlinessgracefulness
Smoothness of movement
grace · agility · nimbleness · litheness · coordination