| 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: | 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: | 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: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
Synonyms: |
base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
| 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: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, asinine, blundering, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, doltish, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lowbrow, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless |
Antonyms: |
careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | crude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, unpolished in manner |
Synonyms: |
awkward, backward, barnyard, boorish, cheap, cloddish, clumsy, coarse, crass, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, grody, gross*, ignorant, ill-bred, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensible, lewd, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, lowbred, oafish, obscene, raunchy*, raw, rough, rude, savage, smutty, tacky*, tactless, uncouth, unenlightened, ungainly, unskillful |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice, polished, refined, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | dense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slow, stupid |
Synonyms: |
blockheaded, boorish, doltish, dull, dumb, fatheaded, ignorant, imbecilic, impassive, lethargic, numskulled, oafish, obtuse, phlegmatic, simple, slow-witted, sluggish, stolid, thick, torpid |
Antonyms: |
brainy, clever, intelligent, smart |
| Main Entry: | difficult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unmanageable socially |
Synonyms: |
argumentative, bearish, boorish, dark, demanding, fastidious, finicky, fractious, fussy, grim, hard to please, impolite, intractable, irritable, oafish, obstreperous, perverse, picky, refractory, rigid, rude, tiresome, tough, troublesome, trying, unaccommodating, unamenable |
Antonyms: |
calm, friendly, sociable |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not very intelligent |
Synonyms: |
boorish, dense, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dumb, oafish, obtuse, slow, slow on uptake, stupid, thick*, weak-minded |
Antonyms: |
bright, intelligent, smart |