Define the word Oafish"Oafish" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Oafish \Oaf"ish\, a.
Like an oaf; simple or clumsy. -- Oaf"ish*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
"oafish" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
oafish
adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
"aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn:
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, swinish]
"oafish" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "oafish":
Boeotian, all thumbs, asinine, awkward, beef-brained, beef-witted,
blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bovine, bumbling,
bungling, butterfingered, careless, chumpish, cloddish, clownish,
clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cowish, crass, cumbersome, dense, doltish,
dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, fingers all thumbs,
fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted,
ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ineducable, inelegant,
klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering,
lumpish, maladroit, opaque, ponderous, sloppy, sottish, stiff,
stupid, thick, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unteachable,
unwieldy, wrongheaded
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