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| 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: | 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: | 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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