Uncoordinated - English meaning

adjective

Causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with.

Usage examples:

Some awkward questions

adjective

Difficult to use, do, or deal with

Usage examples:

It's an awkward corner, so take it slowly., some of the questions were rather awkward., it was an a…

adjective

Causing problems, worry, or embarrassment

Usage examples:

Awkward position the government finds itself in a very awkward position., awkward situation he put …

adjective

Making or characterized by stupid or careless mistakes; clumsy.

Usage examples:

Both her parents are supportive, if a bit blundering

verb

Make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily.

Usage examples:

He knew he'd blundered

adjective

Often making serious mistakes, usually because of not taking care

Usage examples:

You blundering idiot! what do you think you're doing?, a blundering firebomber is being hunted by p…

adjective

Relating to or affecting cattle.

Usage examples:

Bovine tuberculosis

noun

An animal of the cattle group, which also includes buffaloes and bison.

Usage examples:

The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in poland in …

adjective

Connected with cows, or like a cow because of being slow or stupid

adjective

Acting in a confused or ineffectual way; incompetent.

Usage examples:

He's a bumbling fool

verb

Move or act in an awkward or confused manner.

Usage examples:

They bumbled around the house

adjective

Confused and showing no skill

Usage examples:

I've never seen such bumbling incompetence!

adjective

Characteristic of or resembling a clown, especially in being foolish, playful, or humorously exaggerated.

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Clownish antics

adjective

Similar to a clown (= someone who entertains people by wearing funny clothes with a painted face, and making people laugh)

Usage examples:

He had learned to hide his sensitive, anxious nature behind clownish behaviour., there was much abo…

adjective

Awkward in movement or in handling things.

Usage examples:

The cold made his fingers clumsy

adjective

Awkward in movement or manner

Usage examples:

I’m so clumsy – i keep dropping things., he subsequently wrote a letter to the magazine in an admit…

adjective

A clumsy person often has accidents because they do not behave in a careful, controlled way

Usage examples:

That's the third glass you've smashed this week - you're so clumsy!

adjective

Large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy.

Usage examples:

Cumbersome diving suits

adjective

Difficult to do or manage and taking a lot of time and effort

Usage examples:

Critics say that the process for amending the constitution is cumbersome, but others defend it.

adjective

Awkward because of being large, heavy, or not effective

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Cumbersome equipment, cumbersome bureaucracy

adjective

Having feet with a bottom part that is not curved up in an arch, as is usual, but is level so that it touches the ground

adjective

(of a person) tall, thin, and awkward in movements or bearing.

Usage examples:

A gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks

verb

Move ungracefully.

Usage examples:

He gangled along main street

adjective

Tall, thin, and awkward in movement

Usage examples:

Susan showed up with a tall, gangly boy.

adjective

Nervously awkward and ungainly.

Usage examples:

A gawky teenager

adjective

Tall and awkward

Usage examples:

A gawky teenager

adjective

Lacking grace, elegance, or charm.

Usage examples:

He wanted to speak so as not to seem sullen or graceless

adjective

Not attractive in appearance

Usage examples:

He described the house as ugly and graceless., her outwardly graceless appearance camouflages her i…

adjective

Not polite or showing respect or sympathy towards others

Usage examples:

A graceless manner, it was the most graceless acceptance speech i have ever heard., he is generally…

adjective

Done in an unnecessarily forceful way without considering the feelings of others

Usage examples:

Local people complained of the heavy-handed methods being used by the police.

adjective

Having or showing a lack of physical grace, elegance, or refinement.

Usage examples:

He came skidding to an inelegant halt

adjective

Not graceful and attractive in character or appearance

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Inelegant writing

adjective

Having or showing no skill; clumsy.

Usage examples:

The referee's inept handling of the match

adjective

Not skilled or effective

Usage examples:

He was always pretty inept at sports., political/social/economic ineptitude

adjective

Moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way.

Usage examples:

Bob was a big, lumbering, gentle sort

noun

The action of cutting and preparing forest timber for transport and sale.

Usage examples:

The traditional resource industries of the nation, chiefly fishing and lumbering

verb

Move in a slow, heavy, awkward way.

Usage examples:

A truck lumbered past

adjective

Slow and clumsy because of great weight.

Usage examples:

A swarthy, ponderous giant of a man

adjective

Slow and awkward because of being very heavy or large, or (esp. of speech or writing) boring and difficult

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A ponderous pace, ponderous dialogue

adjective

Moving with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.

Usage examples:

A big, shambling, shy man

verb

(of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.

Usage examples:

He shambled off down the corridor

verb

Present participle of shamble

Usage examples:

Sick patients shambled along the hospital corridors., he was a strange, shambling figure.

adjective

(of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy.

Usage examples:

An ungainly walk

adjective

Awkward in movement

adjective

Lacking grace; clumsy.

Usage examples:

An ungraceful swimmer