Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
not adroit;
- Example: "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"- Example: "a maladroit translation"- Example: "maladroit propaganda"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maladroit \Mal`a*droit"\, a. [F. See Malice, and Adroit.]
Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward;
unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness,
n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
maladroit
adj 1: not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the
car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit
propaganda" [ant: adroit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "maladroit":
all thumbs, awkward, base, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish,
brash, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish,
clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs,
fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted,
ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, imperfect, impolitic,
inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inept, insufficient, left-hand,
left-handed, little, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, mean,
mediocre, not comparable, not in it, oafish, out of it, petty,
ponderous, shabby, sloppy, small, stiff, stumbling, trivial,
uncouth, undiplomatic, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilled,
unskillful, untactful, unwieldy