Oafish

3 definitions found

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

  Oafish \Oaf"ish\, a.
     Like an oaf; simple or clumsy. -- {Oaf"ish*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  oafish
       adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
             appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
             manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
             "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
              {boorish}, {loutish}, {neanderthal}, {neandertal}, {swinish}]

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

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "oafish":
     Boeotian, all thumbs, asinine, awkward, beef-brained, beef-witted,
     blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bovine, bumbling,
     bungling, butterfingered, careless, chumpish, cloddish, clownish,
     clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cowish, crass, cumbersome, dense, doltish,
     dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, fingers all thumbs,
     fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted,
     ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ineducable, inelegant,
     klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering,
     lumpish, maladroit, opaque, ponderous, sloppy, sottish, stiff,
     stupid, thick, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unteachable,
     unwieldy, wrongheaded