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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not graceful |
| Synonyms: | awkward, clumsy, coarse, gawky, inelegant, lumbering, rusty, uncourtly, uncouth, ungainly, vulgar, wooden |
| Antonyms: | graceful |
| Main Entry: | inelegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, crude |
| Synonyms: | awkward, coarse, crass, gauche, graceless, gross, indelicate, labored, oafish, raw, rough, rude, stiff*, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wooden |
| Antonyms: | elegant, glamorous, graceful, refined, sophisticated |
* = 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: | 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: | shapeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formless |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, amorphic, amorphous, anomalous, assymetrical, baggy, deformed, disfigured, embryonic, ill-formed, inchoate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, invisible, irregular, malformed, misshapen, mutilated, nebulous, undeveloped, unformed, ungraceful, unmade, unshapely, unstructured, unsymmetrical, vague, without character, without form |
| Antonyms: | formed, proportioned, shapely, symmetrical |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, inflexible |
| Synonyms: | annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, refractory, resistant, rheumatic, rigid, set, solid, solidified, starched, starchy, stark, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, tense, thick, thickened, tight, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding, wooden |
| Antonyms: | flexible, pliable, pliant, soft |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, standoffish |
| Synonyms: | angular, artificial, austere, ceremonious, cold, constrained, forced, hardheaded, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, labored, mannered, obstinate, pertinacious, pompous, priggish, prim, punctilious, relentless, starchy, stilted, strong, stubborn, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful, unnatural, unrelaxed, unrelenting, wooden |
| Antonyms: | casual, graceful, informal |
| Main Entry: | uncoordinated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, clumsy |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, gawkish, gawky, graceless, heavy-handed, klutzy, like a bull in a china shop, lumbering, not agile, stumbling, unadept, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskillful |
| Main Entry: | wooden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stiff, inflexible |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bumbling, clumsy, gauche, gawky, graceless, heavy, heavy-handed, inelegant, inept, maladroit, obstinate, ponderous, rigid, stilted, unbending, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unyielding, weighty |
| Antonyms: | bending, flexible, pliable |
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