clunky
pronunciation
How to pronounce clunky in British English:
UK [ˈklʌŋki]
How to pronounce clunky in American English:
US [ˈklʌŋki]
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- Adjective:
- lacking grace in movement or posture
Word Origin
- clunky (adj.)
- "blocky, ungraceful," by 1968 (when it was the name of a style of women's shoe), from clunk + -y (2). Related: Clunkily; clunkiness.
Example
- 1. Then a sleek , mobile laptop displaced the clunky desktop .
- 2. But these probes are clunky and need a wide tract to move through .
- 3. Yet critics say the present version of the olpc machine is too expensive , too clunky and too slow .
- 4. Ignoring a clunky numerical system and devising his own , he demonstrated the nature of infinity and calculated a value for pi .
- 5. Its own mobile apps are clunky , in marked contrast to instagram 's slick interface .