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# clunky

«clunky» in Mova's school dictionary: **Big, heavy and awkward, not smooth or neat to use, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (clunky, clunkier, clunkiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Big, heavy and awkward, not smooth or neat to use, like clunky old shoes or a clunky machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#m1)

2) (of writing, computer programs) Awkward and not well put together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes old phones, computers and furniture; in English lessons a teacher may call a sentence clunky if it reads badly. Phrases: "a clunky sentence", "clunky old computer".

### examples

- Grandad's old phone is clunky and heavy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#x1)
- She wore clunky boots to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#x2)
- This sentence is clunky; try making it shorter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#x3)
- The website is clunky and hard to use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#x4)
- The robot moved in a clunky way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#x5)
- The clunky old lift rattled up the shaft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/#x6)

### note

Informal. Comparative: clunkier, clunkiest. From the sound "clunk".

### In the corpora

- [Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clunky; use them for variety.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clunky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clunky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.