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Definition of oafish in English: oafishadjective ˈəʊfɪʃˈoʊfɪʃ Rough or clumsy and unintelligent. Example sentencesExamples - And her smallness fills the room and makes everything else in it seem oafish and awkward in comparison, including me.
- He called me a stupid, oafish, little girl in front of EVERYONE the night I met him.
- When you meet him, he's this very odd combination of literate Renaissance man and oafish uncle who says embarrassing things that you wish your girlfriend hadn't heard.
- To be the object of the oafish affections of such a creature, even when they are honest and profound, cannot be expected to give any genuine joy to a woman of sense and refinement.
- He's a nasty, stupid, oafish and worryingly devious main character and put up against Homer, it's inevitable which one the public would go for.
Synonyms stupid, foolish, idiotic, cretinous ungainly, loutish, clumsy, awkward, gawkish, lumbering, ape-like, bearish, cloddish, clownish, doltish, Neanderthal, uncouth, uncultured, boorish, lumpen, rough, coarse, crass, brutish, blockish, rough-hewn, ill-mannered, badly behaved, unrefined, unsophisticated informal clodhopping, blockheaded, moronic, boneheaded, half-witted, dumb, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, thickheaded British informal yobbish North American informal chowderheaded archaic lubberly
Derivatives adverb Guns are oafishly brandished like toy extensions of the actor's arm to stay true to the tired ‘violence fixes everything’ mindset of the screenplay. Example sentencesExamples - She was never again to be so oafishly destroyed, going on to master every new game on every new system as the form has evolved.
- He oafishly yelled ‘let's get ready to rumble’ and ‘oggy oggy oggy’ like a DJ at a kid's disco.
- Though he remains oafishly convinced what happened was consensual, it seems clear that what happened was an act of sheer brutality.
- Then 9th Level supervision Mistress dragged me away oafishly, while I kicked her and screamed ‘ABUSE!’
noun Now, thanks to lots of links, hits, and general public oafishness, I'm once again the first. Example sentencesExamples - Throughout, Fisher is Laurel to Bob's Hardy, the former maneuvering sardonically around the latter's oafishness via a series of wisecracks on the absurdity of their incarceration.
- In his more recent roles, though, the self-deprecating oafishness of his previous roles has been replaced by an impatient humourlessness.
- That paean to one man's oafishness and insensitivity, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is built around a comedian who couldn't make it in stand-up because he was too abrasive.
- Congress, in its collective ham-fisted oafishness, dictated that the government place restrictions on access to spacecraft tracking information.
Definition of oafish in US English: oafishadjectiveˈoʊfɪʃˈōfiSH Stupid, uncultured, or clumsy. Example sentencesExamples - He's a nasty, stupid, oafish and worryingly devious main character and put up against Homer, it's inevitable which one the public would go for.
- And her smallness fills the room and makes everything else in it seem oafish and awkward in comparison, including me.
- To be the object of the oafish affections of such a creature, even when they are honest and profound, cannot be expected to give any genuine joy to a woman of sense and refinement.
- When you meet him, he's this very odd combination of literate Renaissance man and oafish uncle who says embarrassing things that you wish your girlfriend hadn't heard.
- He called me a stupid, oafish, little girl in front of EVERYONE the night I met him.
Synonyms stupid, foolish, idiotic, cretinous
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