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clumsy 音标拼音: [kl'ʌmzi] a. 笨拙的,不雅观的,粗陋的 笨拙的,不雅观的,粗陋的 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" [ synonym: { gawky}, { clumsy}, { 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?" [ synonym: { awkward}, { clumsy}, { 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" [ synonym: { awkward}, { bunglesome}, { clumsy}, { ungainly}] 4: showing lack of skill or aptitude; " a bungling workman"; " did a clumsy job"; " his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [ synonym: { bungling}, { clumsy}, { fumbling}, { incompetent}] Clumsy \ Clum" sy\, a. [ Compar. { Clumsier}; superl. { Clumsiest}.] [ OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st { Clam}, and 1st { Clamp}.] 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill- made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. [ 1913 Webster] But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord' s anointed. -- Dryden. Syn: See { Awkward}. [ 1913 Webster] 105 Moby Thesaurus words for " clumsy": 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
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