Ungainly vs Lumpish - What's the difference?
ungainly | lumpish | Related terms |
clumsy; lacking grace.
* Macaulay
difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
(obsolete) unsuitable; unprofitable
Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.
Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces.
Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
:"Continental soldiers looked lumpish beside our lean-bred fellows: but against my supple Nejdis the British in their turn looked lumpish." T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom , Chapter XCIX.
:"Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly." Henry David Thoreau Walden (section 17) Spring
Ungainly is a related term of lumpish.
As adjectives the difference between ungainly and lumpish
is that ungainly is clumsy; lacking grace while lumpish is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.ungainly
English
Adjective
(er)- His ungainly figure and eccentric manners.
- (Hammond)