Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal)Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.

    That tomboy's clothing is rather clunky.

    klobig, schwerfällig

    неуклюжийneukljužij

  2. Being or making a clunk sound.

    making a clunking sound

Examples

4 sentences
  1. It's old and clunky.

    ruОн старый и громоздкий. — odexed

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  2. Tom thinks that the new reddit app is much clunkier than the one he's currently using.

    Том вважає, що новий апп для перегляду редіту набагато незграбніший, ніж той, що він зараз використовує. — deniko

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  3. The UX of the app is really clunky.

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  4. "Did I express it right?" "It just sounds a bit clunky." "Then how do you think I should say it?"

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
ungainly and awkward to use:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ungainly and awkward to use:

Origin

From clunk + -y.

From clunk + -y.

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Forms

clunkier, clunkiest
Comparativeclunkier Lesson
Superlativeclunkiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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