maladroit

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mal=a=droit

CIDE DICTIONARY

maladroit, a. [F. See Malice, and Adroit.].

 Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

maladroit, adj. clumsy; bungling.

Derivative

maladroitly adv. maladroitness n.

Etymology

F (as MAL-, ADROIT)

THESAURUS

maladroit

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

ROGET THESAURUS

maladroit

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.