Crossword clues for clumsier
clumsier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clumsy \Clum"sy\, a. [Compar. Clumsier; superl. Clumsiest.] [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st Clam, and 1st Clamp.]
Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]
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Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed.
--Dryden.Syn: See Awkward.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: clumsy)
WordNet
See clumsy
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: gawky, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]
not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]
difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" [syn: awkward, bunglesome, ungainly]
showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: bungling, fumbling, incompetent]
Usage examples of "clumsier".
He held the image of a six-pointed star, a red triangle and a blue intertwined, in his mind and used it the way a clumsier dweomerman would have used a scrying stone.
In stark terror, Loddlaen turned on the wind current and raced for the dun, beating his wings hard and steadily until he was sure that he'd left the clumsier owl behind.
Although it was clumsier than the notharctus as it moved about in the trees, lacking a primate's grasping hands and feet, it was more than big enough to have fought off Noth.
The two formations sliced towards one another, the schooners moving much faster through the water than the clumsier raider vessels, and he frowned slightly.
They were clumsier than his helmet systems, but they were also more powerful, and Pedi observed the nearer fortress through them for several moments.
They're clumsier than planes, but quieter and much more difficult to find on scans designed for planes and shuttles.
The Three Stooges couldn’t have put on a clumsier act than that pratfall of theirs.
Unless the pirates handled their ship incredibly badly, they should have no difficulty at all avoiding the clumsier demibireme's assault.
Once he reached the rock she had sometimes mentioned—it couldn't be anything else, not that brute—he saw a new trail, one left by bigger, clumsier feet than Blaine's, a new trail that had survived even the storm.