Gawky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gawky
       adj : 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: {clumsy}, {clunky}, {ungainly}, {unwieldy}]
       [also: {gawkiest}, {gawkier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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