adj
Meaning 1
Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- That tomboy's clothing is rather clunky.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
clunky
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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rhymes with -ʌŋki
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adj
Meaning 2
Being or making a clunk sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
making a clunking sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
lacking grace in movement or posture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
- clumsy fingers
- what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
- heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gawky, clumsy, ungainly, unwieldy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From clunk + -y.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: onhandig — ungainly and awkward to use
- Dutch: onbeholpen — ungainly and awkward to use
- German: klobig — ungainly and awkward to use
- German: schwerfällig — ungainly and awkward to use
- Norwegian Bokmål: prakket — ungainly and awkward to use
- Norwegian Bokmål: tungvint — ungainly and awkward to use
- Norwegian Bokmål: upraktisk — ungainly and awkward to use
- Norwegian Nynorsk: keikete — ungainly and awkward to use
- Portuguese: desajeitado — ungainly and awkward to use
- Russian: неуклюжий (neukljužij) — ungainly and awkward to use
- Spanish: burdo — ungainly and awkward to use
- Spanish: aparatoso — ungainly and awkward to use
- Spanish: desgarbado — ungainly and awkward to use
- Spanish: difícil de usar — ungainly and awkward to use
- Turkish: elverişsiz — ungainly and awkward to use
- Turkish: hantal — ungainly and awkward to use
- Turkish: kullanışsız — ungainly and awkward to use