klutzy
Prone to stumbling
Klutzy means clumsy or awkward, prone to stumbling, dropping things, or bumping into furniture.
The word comes from Yiddish and carries an affectionate tone—a klutzy person is endearingly hapless rather than dangerously incompetent: I'm too klutzy to carry the good china.
Lacking physical grace
- fumblingClumsy, uncoordinated handling
- stumblingWalking clumsily, almost falling
- trippingLosing balance walking
- bumblingClumsily incompetent
ungainly · gawky · lumbering · graceless · ungraceful · oafish · cloddish · heavy-footed
Lacking skill or competence
- bunglingMishandling through incompetence
- botchingDoing something poorly
- unskillfulLacking trained ability
- amateurishLacking professional skill
fumbled · ineffectual · hapless · error-prone · accident-prone · blundering · careless · sloppy
uncoordinated
Lacking physical grace
- fumblingClumsy, uncoordinated handling
- stumblingWalking clumsily, almost falling
- trippingLosing balance walking
bumbling · ungainly · gawky · lumbering · graceless · ungraceful · oafish · cloddish · heavy-footed · shambling
inept
Lacking skill or competence
- bunglingMishandling through incompetence
- botchingDoing something poorly
- unskillfulLacking trained ability
amateurish · fumbled · ineffectual · hapless · error-prone · accident-prone · blundering · careless · sloppy · muddling
slapstick
Exaggerated physical humor
- pratfallComedic fall on buttocks
- buffooneryLudicrous or silly conduct
- goofyAmusingly foolish or absurd
zany · silly · clownish · farcical · laughable · comic · bumbling · antic · caper · physical comedy
- clumsinessclumsiness, awkwardness, fumble, stumble, slip
- clumsyawkward, bumbling, bungling, fumbling, graceless