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shambly

shambly adjective: shambling; not coordinated or graceful; clumsy.

Adjective

shambly (comparative more shambly, superlative most shambly)

  1. Shambling; not coordinated or graceful; clumsy.
    • For now it’s a shambly, spooked quartet, not quite folk and not quite rock, and as such it played with the bassist Brad Truax and the drummer Jim White on Thursday night at the Mercury Lounge.2007 January 6, Ben Ratliff, “A Little Folk, a Little Rock and a Lot of Minimalism”, in New York Times

Synonyms of shambly

Forms of shambly

comparativemore shambly
superlativemost shambly

Origin of shambly

From shamble + -y.

Questions about shambly

What does shambly mean?
Shambly means shambling; not coordinated or graceful; clumsy.
What part of speech is shambly?
Shambly is an adjective.

Words near shambly in the dictionary

  1. Shamblin
  2. shambling
  3. shamblingly
  4. shamblings
  5. Shamblins
  6. shambly
  7. shambo
  8. shambock
  9. shambocked
  10. shambocking
  11. shambocks

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