Dictionary Definition
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,
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, 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, 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,
fumbling, incompetent] [also: clumsiest, clumsier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /ˈklʌmzi/ /"klVmzi/
Noun
- A euphemism for a down's syndrome or similarly disabled person
Adjective
Translations
awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not
dextrous
- Finnish: kömpelö
- German: tollpatschig, ungeschickt, unbeholfen, schwerfällig, plump, klobig
- Hungarian: balkezes, esetlen, ügyetlen
- Russian: неуклюжий, неловкий, неповоротливый
not elegant or well-planned
- Finnish: kömpelö
- German: tollpatschig, ungeschickt, plump, klobig
- Hungarian: ügyetlen, otromba, szakszerűtlen
- ttbc Albanian: ngathët
- ttbc Arabic: أخرق
- ttbc Bosnian: mutan
- ttbc Bulgarian: тежък (težăk)
- ttbc Chinese: 笨 (bèn)
- ttbc Croatian: nespretan
- ttbc Czech: nemotorný
- ttbc Dutch: onhandig
- ttbc Esperanto: mallerta
- ttbc Estonian: kohmakas
- ttbc French: gauche, maladroit
- ttbc Georgian: უხეში (uxeši)
- ttbc Greek: αδέξιος (adéxios)
- ttbc Hebrew: גַּמְלוֹנִי
- ttbc Hindi: bedhanga, adaksha
- ttbc Indonesian: canggung
- ttbc Irish: ciotach
- ttbc Italian: impacciato
- ttbc Japanese: 繁雑 (はんざつ) (hanzatsu)
- ttbc Korean: 서투른 (sŏturŭn)
- ttbc Latvian: neveikls
- ttbc Mongolian: болхи (bolchi)
- ttbc Norwegian: klønet
- ttbc Persian: كيري
- ttbc Polish: niezgrabny
- ttbc Portuguese: desgracioso, desajeitado
- ttbc Romanian: stângaci
- ttbc Serbian: неспретан (nespretan)
- ttbc Slovak: nemotorný
- ttbc Spanish: torpe
- ttbc Swahili: dole
- ttbc Swedish: drumlig
- ttbc Tagalog: tatanga-tanga
- ttbc Thai: ซุ่มซ่าม
- ttbc Turkish: hantal
- ttbc Ukrainian: незграбний (nezgrabnyj)
- ttbc Uyghur: kalanpay
- ttbc Vietnamese: vụng
- ttbc Welsh: afrosgo
- ttbc Yiddish: lepish
Extensive Definition
Clumsy (or clumsiness) may refer to:
In behaviour
- Dyspraxia, a disorder which brings about clumsiness
- A euphemism for someone with Down syndrome or Motor skills disorder
In music
- Clumsy
(album), a 1997 album by Our Lady Peace
- "Clumsy" (Our Lady Peace song), from the above album
- Clumsy (Samiam album), a 1994 album by Samiam
- "Clumsy" (Fergie song), by Fergie
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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