Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bungling, clumsy, cumbersome, dull, stupid |
| Main Entry: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, asinine, blundering, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, doltish, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lowbrow, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless |
| Antonyms: | careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | gawky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bumbling, clownish, gauche, loutish, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, oafish, rude, rustic, splay, uncouth, ungainly |
| Antonyms: | athletic, graceful, lithe |
| Main Entry: | gross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, fat |
| Synonyms: | adipose, big, bulky, chubby, corpulent, dense, fleshy, great, heavy, hulking, husky, lumpish, massive, obese, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, thick, unwieldy, weighty |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, thin |
| Main Entry: | lumbering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, awkward |
| Synonyms: | blundering, bovine, bumbling, clodhopping, clunking, elephantine, gauche, gawky, halting, heavy, heavy-footed, hulking, inept, klutzy, lead-footed, lumpish, maladroit, overgrown, ponderous, splay, two left feet, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy, wooden |
| Antonyms: | agile, gliding, lithe |
| Main Entry: | oafish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, stupid |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, dumb, gawkish, gawky, graceless, half-witted, heavy-handed, idiotic, ignorant, inelegant, inept, klutzy, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, moronic, simple, simpleminded, slow, stumbling, uncoordinated, undexterous, ungainly, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | sluggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, slow-moving |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, comatose, dopey, down, dragging, draggy, drippy, heavy, hebetudinous, inactive, indolent, inert, laid-back*, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, mooney, off, phlegmatic, pokey, slack, sleepyheaded, slothful, slow, sluggard, slumberous, stagnant, stiff, sullen, torpid, unresponsive |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, energetic, fast, lively, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stolid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | apathetic, stupid |
| Synonyms: | blunt, bovine, dense, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, heavy, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lumpish, matter-of-fact, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, slow, stoic, supine, unemotional, unexcitable, wooden |
| Antonyms: | aware, intelligent, interested |
| Main Entry: | klutzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, clumsy, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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