Maladroit

3 definitions found

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

  Maladroit \Mal`a*droit"\, a. [F. See {Malice}, and {Adroit}.]
     Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward;
     unskillful. -- {Mal"a*droit`ly}, adv. -- {Mal`a*droit"ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  maladroit
       adj : not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car
             to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit
             propaganda" [ant: {adroit}]

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

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "maladroit":
     all thumbs, awkward, base, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish,
     brash, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish,
     clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs,
     fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted,
     ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, imperfect, impolitic,
     inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inept, insufficient, left-hand,
     left-handed, little, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, mean,
     mediocre, not comparable, not in it, oafish, out of it, petty,
     ponderous, shabby, sloppy, small, stiff, stumbling, trivial,
     uncouth, undiplomatic, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilled,
     unskillful, untactful, unwieldy