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Decrepitude vs Ungainly - What's the difference?

decrepitude | ungainly |

As a noun decrepitude

is the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.

As an adjective ungainly is

clumsy; lacking grace.

decrepitude

English

Noun

  • the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
  • * 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
    • There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
  • * 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
    • This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude ?

    ungainly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • clumsy; lacking grace.
  • * Macaulay
    • His ungainly figure and eccentric manners.
  • difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
  • (obsolete) unsuitable; unprofitable
    • (Hammond)