Synonyms for oafishness
- ignorance
- ineptitude
- amateurishness
- artlessness
- boorishness
- coarseness
- crudeness
- gawkiness
- gracelessness
- greenness
- inability
- incompetence
- ineptness
- maladroitness
- rudeness
- tactlessness
- uncouthness
- ungainliness
- unskillfulness
- cloddishness
- inexpertness
- uncoordination
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Antonyms for oafishness
- politeness
- sophistication
- artfulness
- cleverness
- convenience
- dexterity
- ease
- easiness
- elegance
- grace
- handiness
- skill
- straightforwardness
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All the oafishness and surly awkwardness of the half-boy period was gone.
WORD ORIGIN
1620s, auf, oph (modern form from 1630s), "a changeling; a foolish child left by the fairies" [Johnson], from a Scandinavian source, cf. Norwegian alfr "silly person," in Old Norse, "elf" (see elf). Hence, "a misbegotten, deformed idiot." Until recently, some dictionaries still gave the plural as oaves.
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