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Adjective clumsy has 4 senses
- gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy - 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"
Antonym: graceful (indirect, via awkward)
- awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen - 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?"
Antonym: felicitous (indirect, via infelicitous)
- awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly - 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"
Antonyms: wieldy, manageable (indirect, via unwieldy)
- bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent - showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
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