CLUMSY meaning: Lacking grace or precision; awkward

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word clumsy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

clumsy: Merriam-Webster.com
clumsy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
clumsy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
clumsy: Collins English Dictionary
clumsy: Vocabulary.com
Clumsy, clumsy: Wordnik
clumsy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
clumsy: Wiktionary
clumsy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
clumsy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
clumsy: Infoplease Dictionary
Clumsy, clumsy: Dictionary.com
clumsy: Online Etymology Dictionary
clumsy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Clumsy (Britney Spears song), Clumsy (Fergie song), Clumsy (Our Lady Peace album), Clumsy (Our Lady Peace song), Clumsy (Samiam album), Clumsy (comics), Clumsy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Clumsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
clumsy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
clumsy: Rhymezone
clumsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
clumsy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Clumsy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
Clumsy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
clumsy: Free Dictionary
clumsy: Mnemonic Dictionary
clumsy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
clumsy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Clumsy (single), Clumsy (song), Clumsy (word), clumsy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

clumsy: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
▸ adjective:  Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
▸ adjective:  Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
▸ noun:  (informal, fairly rare) A clumsy person.

Opposite:

graceful, coordinated, agile, dexterous

Types:

klutz, klutzy, clutz, klutziness, klutzyness, more...

Phrases:

clumsy person, How Clumsy you are, Miss Ueno, big clumsy fellow, clumsy sort, clumsy shoe, more...

Adjectives:

little, own, first, great, old, same, few, big, best, large, real

Colors:

beige, mauve, olive, mustard, chartreuse, salmon, puce, periwinkle, taupe, teal

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