Clumsy

Synonyms for "clumsy" (161 found)

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Closest matches (33)

bungling cumbersome ungainly heavy handed lump all thumbs amateur amateurish artless awkward barbaric barbarous big blunderheaded blundering boorish botched bovine bulky bumbling

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bunglesome butterfingered butterfingers cacophonous careless cloddish clownish

Adjective(3 words)

awkward bunglesome bungling

Adjective(2 words)

bad bumbling

Noun(1 words)

butterfingers

Strong matches (48)

clumsy-fisted coarse contrary crosswise crude cumbrous deficient discommodious doggerel doric dub duffer dysphemistic elephantine fingers all thumbs foul up fumbling galoot gauche gawkish

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gawky goof goofball graceless gross half assed half-assed halting ham fisted ham-fisted ham-handed haphazard harsh heavy heavy-handed hefty hick hit-and-miss hit-or-miss hulking hulky impractical

Adjective(5 words)

clunky cumbersome fumbling gawky ill-chosen

Noun(1 words)

galoot

Related words (80)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

Synonyms

7 entries

bunglesome bungling butterfingers cumbersome galoot klutz ungainly

Related terms

1 entries

clumsies

derived

3 entries

beclumpse clumsily clumsiness

derived from

1 entries

clumse

etymologically related_to

2 entries

clumse clumsed

has context

1 entries

fairly

related to

7 entries

awkward clumsies coordination dextrous elegant graceful lack

similar

5 entries

awkward infelicitous unmanageable unskilled unwieldy

Translations

184 translations across 53 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἀδέξιος adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Arabic

4 entries

أرعن adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
أهوج adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
أَخْرَق adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
متكعبل adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Armenian

2 entries

անշնորհք adj (not elegant or well-planned)
անփույթ adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

hozəki adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Belarusian

1 entries

нязгра́бны adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Bulgarian

2 entries

несръчен adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
тромав adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Catalan

3 entries

barroer adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
maldestre adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
sapastre adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Cebuano

2 entries

gukam adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
kumaw adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

笨 adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
粗笨 adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Czech

4 entries

nemotorný adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
neohrabaný adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
nevhodný adj (not elegant or well-planned)
nešikovný adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)

Dutch

3 entries

onhandig adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
onhandig adj (not elegant or well-planned)
stuntelig adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Esperanto

1 entries

mallerta adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Estonian

2 entries

kohmakas adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
rohmakas adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Finnish

2 entries

kömpelö adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
kömpelö adj (not elegant or well-planned)

French

4 entries

empoté adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
gauche adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
lourd adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
maladroit adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Galician

3 entries

torpe adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
zoupeiro adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
zoupón adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

German

4 entries

klobig adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klobig adj (not elegant or well-planned)
klobig adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)
plump adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Greek

1 entries

αδέξιος adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Hindi

4 entries

फूहड़ adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
बेडौल adj (not elegant or well-planned)
बेडौल adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)
बेढंगा adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Hungarian

4 entries

balkezes adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
esetlen adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
otromba adj (not elegant or well-planned)
szakszerűtlen adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Icelandic

1 entries

klaufalegur adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Ido

1 entries

plumpa adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Irish

4 entries

amscaí adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
amscaí adj (not elegant or well-planned)
anásta adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
ciotach adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Italian

4 entries

goffo adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
grossolano adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)
impacciato adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
maldestro adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Japanese

2 entries

ぶきっちょ adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
不器用な adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Kalmyk

1 entries

эвго adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Kapampangan

1 entries

buraldal adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Korean

1 entries

서투르다 adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Latin

3 entries

inconcinnus adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
inelegans adj (not elegant or well-planned)
inhabilis adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)

Macedonian

4 entries

несмасен adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
смотан adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
трапав adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
тромав adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Māori

4 entries

ninipa adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
pakihawa adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
pekengohe adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
tahangoi adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Norman

1 entries

maladrait adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

klosset adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klosset adj (not elegant or well-planned)
klossete adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klossete adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

klossete adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klossete adj (not elegant or well-planned)
klønete adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klønete adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

ظرافتسز adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Persian

3 entries

قناس adj (not elegant or well-planned)
چلفتی adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
چلاغ noun (clumsy person)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

onjeschekjt adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Polish

3 entries

niezdarny adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
niezgrabny adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
niezgrabny adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)

Portuguese

4 entries

atrapalhado adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
desajeitado adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
desastrado adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
desgracioso adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Romanian

4 entries

butucănos adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)
greoi adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
grosolan adj (not elegant or well-planned)
grosolan adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)

Romansch

1 entries

maladester adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Russian

4 entries

гру́бый adj (not elegant or well-planned)
некраси́вый adj (not elegant or well-planned)
нело́вкий adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
неповоро́тливый adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

cearbach adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
liobasta adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
mì-innealta adj (not elegant or well-planned)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

glomazan adj (not elegant or well-planned)
glomazan adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)
nezgrapan adj (not elegant or well-planned)
nezgrapan adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)

Slovene

1 entries

neroden adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Spanish

4 entries

bruto adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
desmañado adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
manazas adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
patoso adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Swedish

4 entries

drumlig adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klantig adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klumpig adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
klumpig adj (awkward or inefficient in use or construction)

Tagalog

1 entries

asiwa adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Thai

2 entries

ซุ่มซ่าม adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)
เงอะงะ adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Turkish

1 entries

sakar adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Ukrainian

1 entries

незгра́бний adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Vietnamese

1 entries

vụng về adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Yiddish

1 entries

לעפּיש adj (awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

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The clumsy man envied her extraordinary talent.

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This scheme is clumsy production wise.

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You are really clumsy, aren't you!

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He is clumsy with his hands.

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