Clumsiness

/ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/

Synonyms for "clumsiness" (39 found)

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Closest matches (8)

Noun(5 words)

awkwardness ineptitude artlessness bumbling bungling

bad tastebarbarism bother

Strong matches (12)

cacophony coarseness disfigurement embarrassment harshness impracticality impropriety impurity inconvenience

Noun(3 words)

fumbling gawkiness gracelessness

Related words (19)

Noun(9 words)

incoordination inelegance ineptness lumbering maladroitness miscoordination slowness stiffness ungainliness

inelegance infelicity plainness ponderousness roughness rudeness trouble unmanageability vulgarism vulgarity

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries

bearingbehavioral traitcarriage inelegancephysical traitposture unskillfulness

More specific

4 entries

fine motor clumsinessgross motor clumsinesslinguistic clumsinessprocedural clumsiness

Collocations

6 entries

awkward gaitclumsy movementsdexterity deficitmiscoordinationmotor clumsinessprocedural clumsiness

Inflections

1 entries

clumsinesses

Derivations

2 entries

clumsily clumsy

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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Excuse my clumsiness.

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Hunger often produces immortal poems. Abundance, only indigestion and clumsiness.

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Pardon my clumsiness.

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Your clumsiness will get you into big trouble one day.

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