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Gawky

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Main Entry: gawky
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy

Synonyms:

awkward, bumbling, clownish, gauche, loutish, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, oafish, rude, rustic, splay, uncouth, ungainly

Antonyms:

athletic, graceful, lithe
Main Entry: awkward
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, inelegant

Synonyms:

all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful

Antonyms:

adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful
Main Entry: clumsy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not agile; awkward

Synonyms:

all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, unwieldy, weedy

Antonyms:

adroit, agile, athletic, clever, coordinated, couth, dexterous, expert, graceful
Main Entry: gangling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rangy

Synonyms:

awkward, bony, gawky, lanky, leggy, long-legged, long-limbed, lumbering, skinny, spindly, tall, thin
Main Entry: graceless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, unsophisticated

Synonyms:

awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clunky, coarse, corrupt, crude*, forced, gauche, gawky, ill-mannered, improper, indecorous, inelegant, inept, infelicitous, klutzy, loutish, oafish, outlandish, rough, rude, shameless, tasteless, two left feet, uncouth, uncultured, unfortunate, ungainly, unhappy, unmannered

Antonyms:

beautiful, charming, dexterous, elegant, graceful, sophisticated
Main Entry: lumbering
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, awkward

Synonyms:

blundering, bovine, bumbling, clodhopping, clunking, elephantine, gauche, gawky, halting, heavy, heavy-footed, hulking, inept, klutzy, lead-footed, lumpish, maladroit, overgrown, ponderous, splay, two left feet, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy, wooden

Antonyms:

agile, gliding, lithe
Main Entry: oafish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, stupid

Synonyms:

all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, dumb, gawkish, gawky, graceless, half-witted, heavy-handed, idiotic, ignorant, inelegant, inept, klutzy, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, moronic, simple, simpleminded, slow, stumbling, uncoordinated, undexterous, ungainly, unintelligent
Main Entry: uncoordinated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: awkward, clumsy

Synonyms:

all thumbs, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, gawkish, gawky, graceless, heavy-handed, klutzy, like a bull in a china shop, lumbering, not agile, stumbling, unadept, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskillful
Main Entry: uncouth
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, uncultivated

Synonyms:

awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, clownish, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, disgracious, gawky, graceless, gross, heavy-handed, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, oafish, raunchy, raw, rough, rude, rustic, strange, tacky*, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized, ungainly, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, vulgar

Antonyms:

agile, couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated
Main Entry: wooden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stiff, inflexible

Synonyms:

awkward, bumbling, clumsy, gauche, gawky, graceless, heavy, heavy-handed, inelegant, inept, maladroit, obstinate, ponderous, rigid, stilted, unbending, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unyielding, weighty

Antonyms:

bending, flexible, pliable
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