Clumsy vs Capacious - What's the difference?
clumsy | capacious | Related terms |
awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety
awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
A person.
Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
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Clumsy is a related term of capacious.
As adjectives the difference between clumsy and capacious
is that clumsy is awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous while capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy.As a noun clumsy
is a person.clumsy
English
Adjective
(er)- He's very clumsy . I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.
- It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.
- What a clumsy joke...
Noun
(clumsies)Synonyms
* butterfingers * klutzSee also
* clumsiesAnagrams
* *capacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
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