What is another word for gawky?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈɔːki] (IPA)

When describing someone as "gawky", it means that they are awkward, clumsy, and uncoordinated in their movements. Other synonyms for gawky include ungainly, lumbering, clunky, and graceless. These words paint a vivid picture of someone who struggles to move smoothly and effortlessly. Alternatively, you could use "awkward" itself as a synonym, or consider terms like unpolished, unrefined, or uncouth to describe someone who lacks finesse and refinement. Using these different synonyms can help you to convey a clearer picture of the person you are describing and give your writing a bit more depth and nuance.

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What are the hypernyms for Gawky?

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

What are the opposite words for gawky?

The word 'gawky' refers to someone or something that is awkward, clumsy, or uncoordinated. Its antonyms would be graceful, coordinated, and elegant. Some other synonyms that could be used as antonyms for 'gawky' include agile, supple, and nimble. A person or object that is 'gawky' may be viewed as unattractive due to their clumsy behavior, so antonyms such as stylish, sophisticated, and polished would also be fitting to counteract this negative connotation. Overall, the antonyms for 'gawky' all emphasize elements of beauty and poise, which are qualities that are highly sought after in both people and objects.

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Usage examples for Gawky

And the end of it was that before they went down to lunch it had been finally agreed that Nan was to come to this ball; her mother remarking to Lady Stratherne, with a sigh of resignation- 'I can't imagine what Sir George sees in that gawky child.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
She gave some encouragement to the gawky youth, but rather with a view of getting him to aid her in her escape than out of any regard to the over-sensitive stripling.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
He was reminded of the flight of time only by the growth of his son-a gawky, long-limbed boy.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard

Famous quotes with Gawky

  • I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
    John Green (author)
  • That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of twaddle and his penury of sense. He has mounted his hind legs and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck, to the capital edification of circumjacent fools and foolesses, fooling with their foolers. He has tossed off the top of his head and uttered himself in copious overflows of ghastly bosh. The ineffable dunce has nothing to say and says it—says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft. Therefore is the she fool enamored of the feel of his tongue in her ear to tickle her understanding. The limpid and spiritless vacuity of this intellectual jellyfish is in ludicrous contrast with the rude but robust mental activities that he came to quicken and inspire. Not only has he no thoughts, but no thinker. His lecture is mere verbal ditch-water—meaningless, trite and without coherence. It lacks even the nastiness that exalts and refines his verse. Moreover, it is obviously his own; he had not even the energy and independence to steal it. And so, with a knowledge that would equip and idiot to dispute with a cast-iron dog, and eloquence to qualify him for the duties of a caller on a hog-ranch, and an imagination adequate to the conception of a tom-cat, when fired by contemplation of a fiddle-string, this consummate and star-like youth, missing everywhere his heaven-appointed functions and offices, wanders about, posing as a statue of himself, and, like the sun-smitten image of Memnon, emitting meaningless murmurs in the blaze of women’s eyes. He makes me tired. And this gawky gowk has the divine effrontery to link his name with those of Swinburne, Rossetti and Morris—this dunghill he-hen would fly with eagles. He dares to set his tongue to the honored name of Keats. He is the leader, quoth’a, of a renaissance in art, this man who cannot draw—of a revival of letters, this man who cannot write! This little and looniest of a brotherhood of simpletons, whom the wicked wits of London, haling him dazed from his obscurity, have crowned and crucified as King of the Cranks, has accepted the distinction in stupid good faith and our foolish people take him at his word. Mr. Wilde is pinnacled upon a dazzling eminence but the earth still trembles to the dull thunder of the kicks that set him up.
    Oscar Wilde

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