oafish

The word “oafish” has 2 syllables: oaf-ish

It's pronounced as /ˈoʊfɪʃ/


What is synonym and antonym for oafish?

In the thesaurus, “oafish” has 121 synonyms and 61 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for oafish along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for oafish

  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • all thumbs
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • birdbrained
  • blundering
  • blunderous
  • bonehead
  • boneheaded
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • bumbling
  • bungling
  • butterfingered
  • chuckleheaded
  • cockeyed
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cretinous
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dense
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • empty-headed
  • fallacious
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • gawkish
  • gawky
  • gormless
  • graceless
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • heavy-handed
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inelegant
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • klutzy
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • looney
  • loony
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumbering
  • lumpish
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • mindless
  • moronic
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • pinheaded
  • preposterous
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • stumbling
  • stupid
  • thick
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • tomfool
  • uncoordinated
  • undexterous
  • uneducated
  • ungainly
  • uninformed
  • unintellectual
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unsmart
  • untaught
  • unthinking
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacky
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • zany

Antonyms for oafish

  • acute
  • apt
  • astute
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cerebral
  • clever
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • discerning
  • educated
  • erudite
  • fast
  • foxy
  • highbrow
  • hyperintelligent
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intellectual
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • literate
  • logical
  • nimble
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perspicacious
  • prudent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • resourceful
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sensible
  • sharp
  • sharp-witted
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • smart
  • sound
  • supersmart
  • thinking
  • trained
  • ultrasmart
  • valid
  • well-read
  • wily
  • wise

Meanings of oafish

  • adjective
    1. Characteristic of or resembling an oaf; clumsy, stupid.

Example Sentences

  • He made an oafish attempt at humor, but no one laughed.
  • The party became awkward when his oafish behavior drew disapproving glances.
  • Trying to impress her, he ended up being rather oafish in his gestures.
  • Despite his good intentions, his actions came across as oafish and clumsy.
  • The otherwise elegant affair was marred by the presence of an oafish guest.

On this page you'll find 182 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to oafish, such as: absurd, acute, airheaded, all thumbs, apt, asinine, astute.

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Related Words

absurd

absurdity

  • absurdness
  • applesauce
  • asininity
  • balminess
  • blunder
  • brainlessness
  • buffoonery
  • bungle
  • craziness
  • daftness
  • denseness
  • dim-wittedness
  • dippiness
  • doltishness
  • dopiness
  • dottiness
  • drivel
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dumbness
  • fallacy
  • farce
  • fatuity
  • fatuousness
  • feeblemindedness
  • flapdoodle
  • flub
  • folly
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • foppery
  • goof
  • gormlessness
  • howler
  • humbug
  • idiocy
  • illogicality
  • illogicalness
  • imbecility
  • improbability
  • inaneness
  • inanity
  • incongruity
  • insanity
  • irrationality
  • jazz
  • jive
  • kookiness
  • laughableness
  • ludicrousness
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • mindlessness
  • nonsense
  • nonsensicalness
  • nuttiness
  • oafishness
  • obtuseness
  • preposterousness
  • ridiculousness
  • senselessness
  • silliness
  • simplemindedness
  • simpleness
  • simplicity
  • slowness
  • stupidity
  • stupidness
  • tomfoolery
  • twaddle
  • unreasonableness
  • unwisdom
  • vacuity
  • wackiness
  • weirdness
  • witlessness
  • zaniness

balminess

  • absurdity
  • aroma
  • asininity
  • attar
  • balm
  • bouquet
  • brainlessness
  • cologne
  • craziness
  • daftness
  • denseness
  • dim-wittedness
  • dippiness
  • doltishness
  • dopiness
  • dottiness
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dumbness
  • eau de cologne
  • essence
  • fallacy
  • fatuity
  • fatuousness
  • feeblemindedness
  • folly
  • foolishness
  • fragrance
  • gormlessness
  • idiocy
  • imbecility
  • inanity
  • incense
  • insanity
  • irrationality
  • kookiness
  • laughableness
  • ludicrousness
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • mindlessness
  • nonsensicalness
  • nuttiness
  • oafishness
  • obtuseness
  • odor
  • oil
  • preposterousness
  • redolence
  • ridiculousness
  • sachet
  • senselessness
  • silliness
  • simplemindedness
  • simpleness
  • simplicity
  • slowness
  • smell
  • spice
  • stupidity
  • stupidness
  • sweetness
  • unreasonableness
  • unwisdom
  • vacuity
  • wackiness
  • weirdness
  • witlessness
  • zaniness

balmy

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • ape
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • ballistic
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • benign
  • berserk
  • birdbrained
  • bland
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffering
  • buffoonish
  • bugged out
  • bughouse
  • calm
  • certifiable
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • compassionate
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • cushioning
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disordered
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • easy
  • eccentric
  • emollient
  • empty-headed
  • equable
  • fair
  • fallacious
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fey
  • fine
  • fixated
  • fool
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenzied
  • fruity
  • gaga
  • genial
  • gentle
  • glorious
  • gormless
  • halcyon
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jerky
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lenient
  • light
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mellow
  • mental
  • merciful
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • mild
  • mindless
  • moderate
  • moist
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonabrasive
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • off
  • opaque
  • out to lunch
  • pacific
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • peaceful
  • pinheaded
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • quiet
  • rainless
  • raving
  • refreshing
  • ridiculous
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • serene
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sleek
  • slick
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • smooth
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softening
  • softheaded
  • soothing
  • strange
  • stupid
  • summerlike
  • summery
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • surd
  • teched
  • temperate
  • tender
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • tranquil
  • tropical
  • unbalanced
  • unconsidered
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsound
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warm
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wud
  • zany

coarsely

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abrasive
  • abusive
  • animallike
  • artlessly
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • barbarously
  • bargain-basement
  • barnyard
  • bawdy
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • blue
  • bluntly
  • boorish
  • boorishly
  • brazenly
  • broad
  • broken
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • bumpy
  • burred
  • cacophonous
  • cawing
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheesy
  • choked
  • churlish
  • cloddish
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • coarse-grained
  • common
  • contemptuously
  • counterfeit
  • countrified
  • countryfied
  • cracked
  • crappy
  • crass
  • crassly
  • croaking
  • croaky
  • crude
  • crudely
  • curtly
  • cut-rate
  • debasing
  • depraved
  • dirty
  • discordant
  • discourteously
  • disgusting
  • disrespectfully
  • dissonant
  • distasteful
  • earthy
  • el cheapo
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fake
  • filthy
  • flashy
  • foul
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • graceless
  • grained
  • grainy
  • granular
  • granulated
  • grating
  • gravel
  • gravelly
  • grinding
  • gritty
  • gross
  • growling
  • growly
  • gruff
  • gutter
  • guttural
  • hard-core
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hoarse
  • husky
  • ill-bred
  • illiberal
  • immodest
  • imprudently
  • impure
  • inconsiderate
  • incult
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indecorously
  • indelicate
  • indifferent
  • inelegant
  • inexact
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • inharmonious
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insolently
  • irregular
  • jagged
  • jarring
  • junky
  • kibbled
  • kinky
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knobbly
  • knobby
  • knurled
  • knurly
  • lackluster
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • lopsided
  • louche
  • loudly
  • lousy
  • loutish
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lowbred
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumpish
  • lumpy
  • mannerless
  • mealy
  • mediocre
  • meretricious
  • miserable
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nonuniform
  • nubbly
  • nubby
  • oafish
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • offensive
  • ostentatious
  • pebbly
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pitted
  • pocked
  • poor
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • provincial
  • racy
  • raffish
  • ragged
  • rasping
  • raspy
  • raucous
  • raunchy
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • ribald
  • rocky
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rough-hewn
  • roughened
  • roughly
  • roughneck
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rudely
  • rugged
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • rusty
  • rutted
  • rutty
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sandpapery
  • sandy
  • sassily
  • scatological
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scraggly
  • scraggy
  • scraping
  • scratching
  • scratchy
  • screeching
  • scurrilous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • sham
  • sharply
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shoddy
  • showy
  • sleazy
  • smutty
  • snootily
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • splashy
  • squawking
  • stag
  • stoney
  • stony
  • strained
  • strangled
  • strident
  • suggestive
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • tacky
  • tactlessly
  • tasteless
  • tawdry
  • terrible
  • thoughtless
  • throaty
  • trashy
  • trumpery
  • ultracheap
  • unabashedly
  • unacceptable
  • unaligned
  • unbalanced
  • unbecoming
  • uncivilized
  • uncivilly
  • uncouth
  • uncouthly
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undesirable
  • undulating
  • undulatory
  • uneven
  • unfiltered
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungraciously
  • unmannered
  • unmannerly
  • unmelodious
  • unmusical
  • unpleasant
  • unpolished
  • unprintable
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wanton
  • wavy
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched

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