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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gawky \Gawk"y\ (g[add]k"[y^]), a. [Compar. Gawkier (g[add]k"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Gawkiest.] Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gawky 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "gawky": all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bony, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, fumbling, gangling, gangly, gauche, gaunt, gawkish, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, meager, oafish, ponderous, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, sloppy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, splay, stiff, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncouth, undersized, underweight, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy