Meaning of MALADROIT
| Pronunciation: | | `malu'droyt
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| | Definition: | | [adj] not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, inept, left-handed, nonmechanical, tactless, uncoordinated, unmechanical |
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| | Antonyms: | | adroit | | |
| | See Also: | | awkward | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mal`a*droit"\, a. [F. See {Malice}, and {Adroit}.]
Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward;
unskillful. -- {Mal"a*droit`ly}, adv. -- {Mal`a*droit"ness},
n.
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| | Related Terms: | | all thumbs, awkward, base, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, brash, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, imperfect, impolitic, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inept, insufficient, left-hand, left-handed, little, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, mean, mediocre, not comparable, not in it, oafish, out of it, petty, ponderous, shabby, sloppy, small, stiff, stumbling, trivial, uncouth, undiplomatic, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilled, unskillful, untactful, unwieldy |
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