clunkyadjective
uk/ˈklʌŋ.ki/us/ˈklʌŋ.ki/disapprovingclunky adjective (SOLID)
heavy and solid in an ugly way:
The clunky handsets looked old-fashioned as soon as they were launched.
He wore a clunky gold ring.
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Thick, dense and heavy
- chunky
- cumbersome
- dense
- densely
- density
- encumber
- heaviness
- heavy
- hefty
- lumpen
- sludgy
- thick
- thicken
- thickness
- unwieldy
- weigh
- weigh a ton idiom
- weight
- wiry
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clunky adjective (AWKWARD)
awkward or badly done:
The writing is clunky in places and full of clichés.
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Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- crappy
- downmarket
- downscale
- inadequate
- motley
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- of sorts idiom
- tacky
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- weak sauce
- worst
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clunky adjective (SLOW)
old-fashioned or slow:
It was the slow, clunky technology it used that was responsible for the firm's failure.
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Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- crawler
- drift
- float
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- lag
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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Old or old-fashioned