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| Main Entry: |
bungling
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, awkward, gauche, inapt, inept, inexpert, maladroit, unskillful |
| Antonyms: | expert |
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, inelegant |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
| Antonyms: | adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clumsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not agile; awkward |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, unwieldy, weedy |
| Antonyms: | adroit, agile, athletic, clever, coordinated, couth, dexterous, expert, graceful |
| Main Entry: | incompetent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unskillful, unable |
| Synonyms: | amateur, amateurish, awkward, bungling, bush-league, clumsy, disqualified, floundering, helpless, inadequate, incapable, ineffectual, inefficient, ineligible, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, insufficient, maladroit, not cut out for, not equal to, not have it, out to lunch, raw, unadapted, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, unhandy, uninitiated, unproficient, unqualified, unskilled, untrained, useless |
| Notes: | incompetent means not qualified or showing lack of skill or aptitude; incontinent means lacking control over urination and defecation |
| Antonyms: | able, adept, capable, competent, dexterous, effective, efficient, experienced, expert, proficient, skillful |
| Main Entry: | inept |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, unskilled; incompetent |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, artless, awkward, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, gauche, halting, inadept, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inexpert, loser, maladroit, unapt, undexterous, unfacile, ungraceful, unhandy, unproficient, unskillful, wooden |
| Antonyms: | able, adroit, competent, dexterous, fit, skilled, skillful |
| Main Entry: | loutish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boorish |
| Synonyms: | bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, dense, doltish, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maladroit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, clumsy |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, blundering, bumbling, bungling, clunky, floundering, gauche, halting, heavy-handed, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, stumbling, two left feet, ungraceful, unhandy, unskillful |
| Notes: | maladroit means clumsy or awkward or unskillful or inept; malapropos means unseasonable or unsuitable or inappropriate |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, skillful |
| 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: | tactless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unthinking, careless |
| Synonyms: | awkward, blundering, boorish, brash, bungling, clumsy, crude, discourteous, gauche, gruff, harsh, hasty, impolite, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, indelicate, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensitive, maladroit, misunderstanding, rash, rough, rude, sharp, stupid, thoughtless, uncivil, unconsiderate, undiplomatic, unfeeling, unkind, unperceptive, unpolished, unsubtle, unsympathetic, untactful, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | careful, discreet, tactful, thoughtful |
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