klutz

noun

ˈkləts How to pronounce klutz (audio)
Definition of klutznext
as in lummox
a clumsy, awkward person how can she be such a klutz after studying ballet for so many years?

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Recent Examples of klutz Like a klutz on an obstacle course, a Tesla Robotaxi with no safety driver seemingly panicked after taking a wrong turn and plowed through a row of bollards, those springy traffic barriers that you are not supposed to run down. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026 Like Lerner’s previous protagonists, the narrator is something of an intellectual klutz, at once Chekhov and Chaplin. — Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 Leslie played along, pretending to be a klutz who liked being harshed by a pre-school kid. — Noor Hassan, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025 Gender-flipping a few genre tropes — like showing the guy as the klutz and having the girl chase him down to proclaim her love — no longer passes for subversive. — Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 Playing Dawn Summers, Trachtenberg joined the show in 2000, as Buffy's younger sister, who was at times bratty, sulky, and a bit of a klutz — but nonetheless offered a new and exciting sibling dynamic for the show to explore. — Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025 Join for hilarious segments like kids on the naughty list, Christmas klutzes, and those hilariously fed up with the festivities. — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for klutz
  1. lummox
  2. dub
  3. gawk
  4. lubber
  5. lump
Noun
  • There’s married mom of six Angela (Alexandra Melrose), who needs a break from the double-wide trailer and her lummox spouse.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Max is still living happily in New York City with his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), and his lummox of a best friend Duke (Eric Stonestreet).
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
Definition of lummox
Noun
  • But road dubs count for more when everything gets added up at season’s end.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Amazon‘s Prime Video is promising to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up the way the actors’ mouths move on screen.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of dub
Noun
  • Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 31 July 2025
  • The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.
    — Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Definition of gawk
Noun
  • One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly.
    — Adriana Brasileiro, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
Definition of lubber
Noun
  • Experts recommend seeing a doctor promptly for any lump, swelling, pain or change in a testicle.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Martinez told legislators at a hearing this year how his wife had found a lump in her breast and asked for an appointment with her longtime caregiver at Kaiser to examine it.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of lump

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“Klutz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/klutz. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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