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ˈklʌŋ kiclunky

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldyadjective

    lacking grace in movement or posture

    "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

  2. clunkyadjective

    making a clunking sound

Wiktionary

  1. clunkyadjective

    Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.

ChatGPT

  1. clunky

    Clunky refers to something that is heavy, solid, awkward, and often outdated or not functioning smoothly. It can describe physical objects like machinery, or intangible things like a software interface or a piece of writing. The term suggests a lack of elegance, sophistication, or modernity.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clunky in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clunky in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of clunky in a Sentence

  1. Douglas Noel Adams:

    A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

  2. Ryan Erwin:

    A caucus is, by its nature, is a clunky process and difficult to understand -- it's not what people are used to doing.

  3. Olga Vasileva:

    The design of desktop Wikipedia [ has ]... not seen any substantive changes for the past 10 years, leaving certain elements of the site's navigation feeling clunky and overwhelming.

  4. Erin Blanton:

    I don't have the technology resources that big stores do or Amazon, i don't have ability to make a super easy-to-use app. We don't have an IT department. We don't have a delivery company. Our website is a little clunky.

  5. Jamie Raskin:

    We don't want it to read like a clunky committee effort, we want it to have an authorial voice that tells the story of what happened.

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