All maladroit synonyms
mal·a·droit
M m adjective maladroit
- gawky — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- ham-handed — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- tactless — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
adj maladroit
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- gauche — lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
- halting — Archaic. lame; limping.
- heavy-handed — oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
- inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- inexpert — not expert; unskilled.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- ungraceful — lacking charm or elegance; awkward.
- unskillful — not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- klutzy — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- all thumbs — clumsy
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- clunky — If you describe something as clunky, you mean that it is solid, heavy, and rather awkward.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- unhandy — not skillful in manual work: He's unhandy when it comes to fixing things around the house.
- brash — If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive.
- impolitic — not politic, expedient, or judicious.
- inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- inelegant — not elegant; lacking in refinement, gracefulness, or good taste.
- insensitive — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
- thoughtless — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- untactful — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.