gawky

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gawky
    adj 1: 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}, {clumsy}, {clunky},
           {ungainly}, {unwieldy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gawky \Gawk"y\ (g[add]k"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Gawkier}
   (g[add]k"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Gawkiest}.]
   Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. --
   n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from
   stupidity, a gawk.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "gawky":
      all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bony, boorish,
      bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy,
      clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, flat, flat-chested,
      fleshless, fumbling, gangling, gangly, gauche, gaunt, gawkish,
      graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky,
      inelegant, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
      left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish,
      maladroit, meager, oafish, ponderous, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny,
      skeletal, skinny, sloppy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly,
      splay, stiff, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncouth,
      undersized, underweight, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy

    

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