clumsy

A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.

A clumsy action or statement is not skilful or is likely to upset people.

• awkward is widely applicable and may suggest unhandiness, inconvenience, lack of muscular control, embarrassment, or lack of tact.
  • It'll be awkward getting cars in and out.
• clumsy implies stiffness and heaviness and so may connote inflexibility, unwieldiness, or lack of ordinary skill.
  • It's not easy walking in these clumsy shoes.
• inept often implies complete failure or inadequacy.
• His inept handling of a minor problem turned it into a major crisis.

Synonyms: butterfingered, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed, unhandy
Antonyms: deft, dexterous (also dextrous), handy, sure-handed

六级/考研单词: clumsy, seldom, upset, embarrass, tactic, implicit, stiff, synonym, antonym