What is another word for clumsily?

Pronunciation: [klˈʌmzɪlɪ] (IPA)

Clumsily is an adverb used to describe someone's movements or actions that lack finesse and coordination. There are a variety of synonyms for the word clumsily, including inelegantly, awkwardly, maladroitly, gracelessly, uncoordinated, ungainly, and bumblingly. These words can be used interchangeably and convey the same meaning. For example, someone who struggles to walk in high heels may be described as walking clumsily or ungracefully. Someone who fumbles with chopsticks when eating sushi may be said to be eating clumsily. Regardless of the word used, they all indicate a lack of coordination or skillfulness in performing a task or activity.

Synonyms for Clumsily:

What are the hypernyms for Clumsily?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for clumsily?

Antonyms are words that have completely opposite meanings. When it comes to the word "clumsily," antonyms could include adverbs such as gracefully, skillfully, deftly, adeptly or smoothly. These antonyms describe a level of proficiency that is opposite to clumsiness. Someone who is graceful moves with fluidity and elegance, while someone who is skillful demonstrates a high level of dexterity and competence. Deftly often describes someone who maneuvers with ease, while adeptly refers to someone who is highly skilled or proficient. Finally, smoothly depicts someone who is capable of completing a task with fluid movements, without struggling or making mistakes.

Usage examples for Clumsily

There was a little laugh from the others, and he knew he had done wisely, when they clumsily expressed their satisfaction at his escape.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
He did it clumsily, as a matter of course, so that things of silk and cotton were crumpled and twisted, and he regarded his results dubiously.
"Command"
William McFee
Sitting in Donald's chair, holding Davey in his arms, tightly, clumsily, the tall man watched her; his face turned to, and from her, as his eyes wandered apprehensively about the hut, and to the door.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard

Famous quotes with Clumsily

  • One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
    Stephanie Beacham
  • I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
    William Faulkner
  • At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her
    Chelsea Handler
  • Just as no thing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. Furthermore, every organism is a process: thus the organism is not other than its actions. To put it clumsily: it is what it does. More precisely, the organism, including its behavior, is a process which is to be understood only in relation to the larger and longer process of its environment. For what we mean by "understanding" or "comprehension" is seeing how parts fit into a whole, and then realizing that they don't the whole, as one assembles a jigsaw puzzle, but that the whole is a pattern, a complex wiggliness, which has no separate parts. Parts are fictions of language, of the calculus of looking at the world through a net which to chop it up into bits. Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
    Alan Watts
  • I consider it as being without possible comparison the best book ever written on St. Thomas. Nothing short of genius can account for such an achievement. Everybody will no doubt admit that it is a ‘clever’ book, but the few readers who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas…cannot fail to perceive that the so-called ‘wit’ of Chesterton has put their scholarship to shame. He has guessed all that which we had tried to demonstrate, and he has said all that which they were more or less clumsily attempting to express in academic formulas. Chesterton was one of the deepest thinkers who ever existed; he was deep because he was right; and he could not help being right; but he could not either help being modest and charitable, so he left it to those who could understand him to know that he was right, and deep; to the others, he apologized for being right, and he made up for being deep by being witty. That is all they can see of him.
    G. K. Chesterton

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