Word.ws English Dictionary

clunkiness

clunkiness noun: the state or property of being clunky.

Noun

clunkiness (uncountable)

  1. The state or property of being clunky.
    • Today around 90 percent of people use Zawgyi instead of Unicode.
      Incompatible without fiddly plug-ins, it only allows people to communicate in Burmese with other Zawgyi users, excluding the nation’s minority languages. Its clunkiness also means search functions do not work, crippling data storage...2019 September 27, “Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world”, in The Japan Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2020

Synonyms of clunkiness

Origin of clunkiness

From clunky + -ness.

Questions about clunkiness

What does clunkiness mean?
Clunkiness means the state or property of being clunky.
What part of speech is clunkiness?
Clunkiness is a noun.

Words near clunkiness in the dictionary

  1. clunker
  2. clunkers
  3. clunkier
  4. clunkiest
  5. clunkily
  6. clunkiness
  7. clunking
  8. clunkingly
  9. clunkings
  10. clunks
  11. clunky

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clunkiness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “clunkiness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/clunkiness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.