/ English Dictionary

CLUMSINESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Synonyms:

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("clumsiness" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clumsiness"):

woodenness (the quality of being wooden and awkward)

gaucherie; rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)

Derivation:

clumsy (not elegant or graceful in expression)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

Synonyms:

awkwardness; clumsiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("clumsiness" is a kind of...):

bearing; carriage; posture (characteristic way of bearing one's body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clumsiness"):

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)

Derivation:

clumsy (lacking grace in movement or posture)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

Synonyms:

awkwardness; clumsiness; ineptitude; ineptness; maladroitness; slowness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clumsiness" is a kind of...):

unskillfulness (a lack of cognitive skill)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clumsiness"):

rustiness (ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice)

Derivation:

clumsy (showing lack of skill or aptitude)

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