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[syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gawky \Gawk"y\ (g[add]k"[y^]), a. [Compar. Gawkier
(g[add]k"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Gawkiest.]
Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. --
n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from
stupidity, a gawk.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gawky
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" [syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky,
ungainly, unwieldy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "gawky":
all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bony, boorish,
bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy,
clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, flat, flat-chested,
fleshless, fumbling, gangling, gangly, gauche, gaunt, gawkish,
graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky,
inelegant, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish,
maladroit, meager, oafish, ponderous, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny,
skeletal, skinny, sloppy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly,
splay, stiff, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncouth,
undersized, underweight, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy