clumsy
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clumsy/ˈklʌmzi/
▶adjective (clumsier, clumsiest)
- 1 awkward in movement or performance.
■ difficult to handle or use; unwieldy.
- 2 lacking tact or social skills.
– derivatives
clumsily adverb,
clumsiness noun.
clumsily adverb,
clumsiness noun.
– origin C16: from obs. clumse ‘make or be numb’, prob. of Scand. origin.
'clumsy' also found in these Oxford entries:
ape
- artless
- butterfingers
- cack-handed
- chucklehead
- cloddish
- clodhopper
- clodpole
- clot
- elephantine
- finger
- flat-footed
- foozle
- galoot
- galumph
- ham-fisted
- heavy-handed
- hobbledehoy
- hulk
- hulking
- inept
- klutz
- lead-footed
- left
- lollop
- lubber
- lumber
- lummox
- maladroit
- oaf
- ponderous
- slapstick
- stumblebum
- sumph
- they
- uncoordinated
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unsubtle
- waddle
