maladroitness

Other forms of maladroitness

plural

maladroitnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about maladroitness

What does maladroitness mean?

maladroitness means "unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training".

How many syllables are in maladroitness?

maladroitness has 4 syllables: ma-la-droit-ness. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for maladroitness?

Close synonyms include awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, slowness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maladroitness a common word?

maladroitness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.