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clownish

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Main Entry: boorish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, awkward

Synonyms:

bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar

Antonyms:

charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated
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: daffy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly, crazy

Synonyms:

clownish, crackers, daft, demented, deranged, dotty, foolish, goofy loony, nuts, nutty
Main Entry: droll
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amusing, farcical

Synonyms:

absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical, crack-up, diverting, eccentric, entertaining, for grins, funny, gagged up, gelastic, humorous, jocular, joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint, queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical

Antonyms:

dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny
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: loutish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boorish

Synonyms:

bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, dense, doltish, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
Main Entry: rustic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, uncouth

Synonyms:

awkward, boorish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, dull, foolish, graceless, ignorant, inelegant, loutish, maladroit, rough, rude, stupid, uncultured, uneducated, ungainly, unmannerly, unpolished, unsophisticated

Antonyms:

couth, cultured, polished, refined, sophisticated
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: zany
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crazy, funny

Synonyms:

camp*, campy, clownish, comical, dumb, eccentric, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, humorous, joshing, kooky, loony, madcap, nutty, sappy*, wacky*, witty

Antonyms:

serious
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