Maladroit

Definition: Maladroit

Maladroit

Adjective

1. Not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "maladroit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Maladroit \Mal`a*droit"\, adjective. [French expression See Malice, and Adroit.]. (references)

Synonym: Maladroit

Unskillfulness

Adjective: unskillful; inexpert; bungling;Verb: awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky.

Crosswords: Maladroit

French (awkward, blunderer, blundering, butter fingers, clumsy, clumsy person, dub, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, inconsiderate, inexpert, left handed, lout, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, muff, nincompoop, ponderous, slouch, unskilful, unwieldy).

Le Maçon maladroit (1898)

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Books

• L'enfant maladroit (reference)

• Maladroit (poetry) (reference)

• Mémoires d'un ange maladroit : roman (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Maladroit (+2 Bonus Tracks)(Enhanced) [IMPORT] (reference)

• Maladroit [ENHANCED] (reference)

• Maladroit [EXTRA TRACKS] [ENHANCED] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Albanian

i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), duartharë (butterfingered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعوزه البراعة (ungainly), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, ponderous, rude, shambling, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy), несръчен (all thumbs, awkward, blundering, bungling, butterfingered, clumsy, heavy-handed, inept, left handed, two-fisted, unapt, unskilful, untoward), нетактичен (clumsy, gauche, indelicate, indiscreet, rude, tactless, tasteless, undiplomatic, unhappy, untactful). (various references)

Czech

neobratný (clumsy, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful), nešikovný (awkward, butter-fingered, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, inept, unskillful, unwieldy). (various references)

Farsi 

ناهنجار (Abnormal, Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Uncouth, Unkempt), ناشی (Awkward, Gauche, Ill, Jackleg, Laity, Muff, Rube, Unperfect), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), بی مهارت (Inapt, Inexpert, Skillless, Unskilled(Lful)), بی دست وپا. (various references)

French

maladroit, indiscret. (various references)

German

taktlos (indelicate, indelicately, indiscreet, indiscreetly, tactless, tactlessly). (various references)

Greek 

αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful), αδέξιος (awkward, gawky, heavy-handed, inept). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסורבל (awkward, clumsy, complicated, hulking, ungainly), לא זריז. (various references)

Hungarian

ügyetlen (awkward, blundering, clumsy, freshwater, fumbling, gawky, gimp, half-assed, impolitic, inexpert, left handed, lumpish, uneasy, unhandy, unskilful, unskillful). (various references)

Indonesian

gabir (awkward, clumsy). (various references)

Italian

maldestro (all thumbs, awkward, clumsy, gauche, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, ill at ease, inexperienced, inexpert, unhandy), indiscreto (curious, indiscreet, nosey, nosy, officious, personal, prying, tactless, telltale), goffo (awkward, clumsy, cubbish, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, hobbledehoy, oafish, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy). (various references)

Manx

mertragh (awkward), gyn thort (headlong, headstrong, impulsive, inconsiderate, inconsideration, snap, unconsidered). (various references)

Pig Latin

aladroitmay.(various references)

Portuguese

inábil (awkward, muff, unskilful), desastrado (awkward, bumbling, butterfinger, disastrous, fumbling, heavy-handed, left-handed), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Romanian

stângaci (artless, awkward, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), neîndemânatic (awkward, awkwardly, buckram, butter fingers, butter-fingered, clumsily, clumsy, fumbling, gawky, inapt, left handed, lubberly, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, unversed). (various references)

Russian 

неловкий (awkward, blundering, cack-handed, clumsy, gauche, gawky, heavy-handed, self conscious, self-conscious, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezgrapan (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, gangling, gauche, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy), nevešt (clumsy, inapt, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, unskilled), netaktičan (tactless, undiplomatic), nespretan (awkward, clumsy, gawky, left handed, unhandy). (various references)

Spanish

torpe del nacimiento (artless, bungling, coarse, gauche), desmañado (clumsy, gauche, impractical, left handed). (various references)

Swedish

tafatt (awkward, clumsy, flatfooted, gauche, gawky, heavy-handed, inept, left handed, tag), fumlig (fumbling, hamfisted, ham-handed). (various references)

Thai

ไม่ชำนาญ. (various references)

Turkish

sakar (awkward, butterfingered, clumsy, gawky, heavy-handed, left handed, oaf, sacchar-, ungainly, unhandy), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Ukrainian

незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng về (butter-fingered, clumpish, clumsily, clumsy, gauche, heavy-handed, loutish, rough-hewn, stern foremost), không khôn khéo (undiplomatic). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "maladroit": maladroitly, maladroitness, maladroitnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Maladroit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maladoum, Malandro, maldroit, mallaret, Mildrith, millardet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: admiral, armload, dilator, diorama, marital, martial, matador, matilda.

-3 letters: adroit, alodia, amatol, amidol, amoral, amrita, aortal, aramid, atrial, diatom, lariat, latria, maloti, milord, mitral, mortal, radial, ramtil, rialto, tailor, tamari.

-4 letters: admit, alamo, alarm, altar, amido, amort, aorta, aroid, aroma, artal, atria, damar, dolma, domal, dotal, drail, drama, droit, laari, laird, lamia, liard.

+2 letters: ameliorated, maladroitly, mandatorily.

+3 letters: melodramatic.

+4 letters: deformational, maladroitness, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, melodramatize, sacerdotalism.

+5 letters: antidromically, democratically, demoralization, dermatological, malapportioned, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatists, melodramatized, melodramatizes, sacerdotalisms, tatterdemalion, traditionalism.