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clumsiness

DEFINITIONS OF: clumsiness

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n the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

Synonyms:
awkwardness
Antonyms:
gracefulness
beautiful carriage
Types:
gracelessness, ungracefulness
an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
gawkiness, ungainliness
the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
stiffness
the property of moving with pain or difficulty
Type of:
bearing, carriage, posture
characteristic way of bearing one's body

n the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Synonyms:
awkwardness, gracelessness, stiffness
Types:
woodenness
the quality of being wooden and awkward
gaucherie, rusticity
the quality of being rustic or gauche
Type of:
inelegance
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste

n unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

Synonyms:
awkwardness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness
Types:
rustiness
ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice
Type of:
unskillfulness
a lack of cognitive skill
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