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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. lacking grace in movement or posture;
- Example: "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"
- Example: "clumsy fingers"
- Example: "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"
- Example: "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
[syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]

2. not elegant or graceful in expression;
- Example: "an awkward prose style"
- Example: "a clumsy apology"
- Example: "his cumbersome writing style"
- Example: "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
[syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]

3. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape;
- Example: "an awkward bundle to carry"
- Example: "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"
- Example: "clumsy wooden shoes"
- Example: "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
[syn: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly]

4. showing lack of skill or aptitude;
- Example: "a bungling workman"
- Example: "did a clumsy job"
- Example: "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
[syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Clumsy \Clum"sy\, a. [Compar. Clumsier; superl. Clumsiest.] [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st Clam, and 1st Clamp.] 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. [1913 Webster] But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. --Dryden. Syn: See Awkward. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

clumsy adj 1: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy] 2: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen] 3: difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" [syn: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly] 4: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

105 Moby Thesaurus words for "clumsy": Doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, botched, bovine, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, cloddish, clownish, clumsy-fisted, coarse, contrary, crosswise, crude, cumbersome, cumbrous, deficient, discommodious, doggerel, dysphemistic, elephantine, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, haphazard, harsh, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky, impractical, improper, impure, in bad taste, incommodious, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, inept, infelicitous, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, messy, oafish, outlandish, perverse, ponderous, promiscuous, rude, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, splay, stiff, tasteless, troublesome, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraced, ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unmanageable, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untidy, unwieldy, vulgar, wooden