gangling
The word “gangling” has 2 syllables: gan-gling
It's pronounced as /ˈɡæŋɡlɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for gangling?
In the thesaurus, “gangling” has 37 synonyms and 28 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for gangling along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for gangling
- angular
- awkward
- boney
- bony
- gangly
- gaunt
- gawky
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- leggy
- long-legged
- long-limbed
- lumbering
- racy
- rangy
- rawboned
- reedy
- scraggy
- scrawny
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- spidery
- spindle-legged
- spindle-shanked
- spindling
- spindly
- stringy
- tall
- thin
- twiggy
- waspish
- weedy
- willowy
- wiry
Antonyms for gangling
- beefy
- bulky
- chubby
- chunky
- corpulent
- fat
- fleshy
- full
- gross
- heavyset
- muscle-bound
- obese
- overweight
- plump
- portly
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- round
- squat
- stocky
- stout
- stubby
- stumpy
- sturdy
- thickset
- tubby
- weighty
Meanings of gangling
- adjective
- Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
- noun
- A member of a gang.
Example Sentences
- The gangling teenager awkwardly navigated his way through the crowded hallway.
- His gangling frame made him stand out among his shorter peers on the basketball court.
- The gangling giraffe gracefully moved through the savanna, its long legs propelling it forward.
- Despite his gangling appearance, he was surprisingly agile on the dance floor.
- The gangling tree branches swayed in the wind, casting long shadows across the yard.
On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gangling, such as: angular, awkward, beefy, boney, bony, bulky, chubby.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
gangly
lank
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- droopy
- elastic
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- flabby
- flaccid
- fleshless
- flexible
- flimsy
- floppy
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- insubstantial
- lanky
- lax
- lean
- lightweight
- limp
- loose
- meager
- mushy
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pliant
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- relaxed
- resilient
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- semisoft
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- soft
- spare
- spindly
- springy
- squashy
- squishy
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- stretchy
- subtle
- supple
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
- yielding
lanky
rambling
- ambling
- aside
- at length
- babble
- babbling
- batting
- blab
- blabbering
- blabbing
- blithering
- bombastic
- bumbling
- burbling
- chatter
- chattering
- chatting
- chatty
- circuitous
- circuitousness
- circularity
- circumlocution
- circumlocutory
- communicative
- confused
- conversational
- covering
- cruising
- dawdling
- desultory
- deviating
- devious
- diffuse
- diffuseness
- digressing
- digression
- digressional
- digressionary
- digressive
- discursive
- disjointed
- divagation
- drifting
- drivel
- driveling
- drivelling
- drooling
- embellished
- embroidered
- exaggerated
- excursion
- excursive
- excursus
- floating
- gabbing
- gabble
- gabbling
- gabby
- galavanting
- gallivanting
- gangling
- garrulous
- gaseous
- gassy
- gibbering
- going on
- grandiloquent
- grunt
- grunting
- gypsying
- here and there
- hifalutin
- highfalutin
- hiking
- hoboing
- incoherent
- incongruous
- indirect
- irregular
- jabber
- jabbering
- kicking around
- leaping
- logorrheic
- long-winded
- loquacious
- marching
- maundering
- meandering
- mooching
- moping
- mumble
- murmur
- murmuring
- mutter
- muttering
- parenthesis
- pattering
- perambulating
- peregrinating
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- power walking
- prating
- prattle
- prattling
- prolix
- prolixity
- promenading
- random
- ranging
- rattling
- redundant
- repetitious
- roaming
- roundabout
- roving
- rumor
- running on
- sauntering
- scattered
- sidetracking
- spreading
- straggling
- straying
- strewn
- strolling
- talkative
- talky
- tangent
- tautological
- tautologous
- trailing
- traipsing
- tramping
- traversing
- trekking
- tromping
- undertone
- unplanned
- vagabonding
- verbose
- verbosity
- voluble
- waffling
- walking
- wandering
- whisper
- windiness
- windy
- wordiness
- wordy
rangy
- angular
- boney
- bony
- boundless
- broad
- capacious
- commodious
- comprehensive
- deep
- endless
- expansive
- extended
- extensive
- far-flung
- far-reaching
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- general
- global
- inclusive
- infinite
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- leggy
- limitless
- long-legged
- long-limbed
- racy
- rawboned
- reedy
- roomy
- scraggy
- scrawny
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spacious
- spare
- spidery
- spindle-legged
- spindle-shanked
- spindling
- spindly
- stringy
- sweeping
- thin
- twiggy
- unlimited
- waspish
- weedy
- wide
- wide-ranging
- widespread
- willowy
- wiry