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Definitions for Clumsy

[1] awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
[2] awkwardly done or made; unwieldy; ill-contrived: He made a clumsy, embarrassed apology.
[3] lacking in skill or physical coordination
[4] awkwardly constructed or contrived

Words related to Clumsy

bulky, ungainly, unwieldy, inept, ponderous, heavy-handed, bungling, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawky, graceless, heavy, helpless, hulking, incompetent, inelegant, inexperienced, inexpert, lumbering

Words nearby Clumsy

cluj, cluj-napoca, clumber spaniel, clump, clumping, clumsy, clunes, clung, cluniac, clunk, clunker

Origin of Clumsy

1590–1600; clums benumbed with cold (now obsolete) + -y1; akin to Middle English clumsen to be stiff with cold, dialectal Swedish klumsig benumbed, awkward, klums numbskull, Old Norse klumsa lockjaw. See clam2

Other words from Clumsy

clum·si·ly , adverb
clum·si·ness , noun

Word origin for Clumsy

C16 (in obsolete sense: benumbed with cold; hence, awkward): perhaps from C13 dialect clumse to benumb, probably from Scandinavian; compare Swedish dialect klumsig numb

Synonyms for Clumsy

bulky, heavy-handed, inept, ponderous, ungainly, unwieldy, all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, weedy