What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Ungainly vs Lubberly - What's the difference?

ungainly | lubberly | Related terms |

Ungainly is a related term of lubberly.


As adjectives the difference between ungainly and lubberly

is that ungainly is clumsy; lacking grace while lubberly is clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).

As an adverb lubberly is

in the manner of a landlubber.

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)

    lubberly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
  • * Shakespeare
    • a great lubberly boy
  • * 1693 , , Chapter XX:
    • Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;
  • Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
  • * 1848 , , "Captain Spike, Or The Islets of the Gulf", in Bentley's Miscellany [http://books.google.com/books?id=79zu_mUqPYgC], page 19:
  • *:"Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In the manner of a landlubber.
  • * 1839 , Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King [http://books.google.com/books?id=X3wEAAAAQAAJ], page 105:
    • I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly .