gawky

  • 11gawky — adj. Gawky is used with these nouns: ↑teenager …

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  • 12gawky — adjective moving in a nervous and awkward way, as if you cannot control your arms and legs: a gawky, long legged teenager gawkiness noun (U) …

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  • 13gawky — adjective how can you convince a fourteen year old boy that he will not always be so gawky? Syn: awkward, ungainly, gangling, maladroit, clumsy, klutzy, inelegant, uncoordinated, graceless, ungraceful; unconfident, unsophisticated Ant: graceful …

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  • 14gawky — gawkily, gawkishly, adv. gawkiness, gawkishness, n. /gaw kee/, adj., gawkier, gawkiest. awkward; ungainly; clumsy. Also, gawkish /gaw kish/. [1715 25; GAWK + Y1] * * * …

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  • 15gawky — adjective awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement Syn: gauche, ungraceful …

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  • 16gawky — Synonyms and related words: all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bony, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, flat, flat chested, fleshless, fumbling,… …

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  • 17gawky — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. clumsy, ungainly, rustic, uncouth; see awkward 1 , rude 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. clumsy, ungainly, awkward, oafish, graceless, bumbling, bungling, cloddish, maladroit, uncoordinated. ANT.: coordinated,… …

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  • 18gawky — gawk|y [ gɔki ] adjective tall and thin, and moving in a way that does not seem graceful or comfortable ╾ gaw|ki|ness noun uncount …

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  • 19gawky — gawk·y || gɔːkɪ adj. awkward, clumsy, oafish, loutish …

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  • 20gawky — adjective (gawkier, gawkiest) nervously awkward and ungainly. Derivatives gawkily adverb gawkiness noun …

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