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Meaning of "kludgy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KLUDGY

kludgy  [ˈklʌdʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KLUDGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kludgy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES KLUDGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kludgy

Kludge

A kludge is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain, yet an effective and quick solution to a problem. It is a rough synonym to the term "jury rig". This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, internet slang, and evolutionary neuroscience.

Definition of kludgy in the English dictionary

The definition of kludgy in the dictionary is awkward or makeshift and poorly designed, mainly.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KLUDGY


allergy
ˈælədʒɪ
biology
baɪˈɒlədʒɪ
biotechnology
ˌbaɪəʊtɛkˈnɒlədʒɪ
budgie
ˈbʌdʒɪ
cludgie
ˈklʌdʒɪ
ecology
ɪˈkɒlədʒɪ
energy
ˈɛnədʒɪ
Fuji
ˈfuːdʒɪ
genealogy
ˌdʒiːnɪˈælədʒɪ
goji
ˈɡəʊdʒɪ
kanji
ˈkændʒɪ
kludgey
ˈklʌdʒɪ
methodology
ˌmɛθəˈdɒlədʒɪ
orgy
ˈɔːdʒɪ
psychology
saɪˈkɒlədʒɪ
pudgy
ˈpʌdʒɪ
sludgy
ˈslʌdʒɪ
smudgy
smʌdʒɪ
strategy
ˈstrætɪdʒɪ
technology
tɛkˈnɒlədʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KLUDGY

klipspringer
klister
Klondike
klondiker
klondyke
klondyker
klong
klooch
kloochman
kloof
klootch
klootchman
klootchmen
Klopstock
kludge
kludgey
klutz
klutziness
klutzy
klystron

WORDS THAT END LIKE KLUDGY

cadgy
dodgy
edgy
fledgy
hedgy
kedgy
ledgy
midgy
podgy
porridgy
ridgy
sedgy
splodgy
squidgy
stodgy
wedgy

Synonyms and antonyms of kludgy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kludgy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KLUDGY

Find out the translation of kludgy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kludgy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kludgy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缺憾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kludgy
570 millions of speakers

English

kludgy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kludgy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

kludgy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

запутано
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kludgy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kludgy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kludgy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kludgy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kludgy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

場しのぎの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미봉책
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kludgy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kludgy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

kludgy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुल्डी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kludgy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kludgy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kludgy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заплутано
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kludgy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

kludgy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kludgy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kludgy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kludgy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kludgy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KLUDGY»

The term «kludgy» is regularly used and occupies the 104.325 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KLUDGY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kludgy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KLUDGY»

Discover the use of kludgy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kludgy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and Collective ...
With individuals, commonsense psychology does not require us to treat the mind as a kludgy architecture. Indeed, commonsense psychology makes it easy to see the mind as a serial machine, which takes in information from the environment, ...
Bryce Huebner, 2014
2
PC Mag
The AT is a superbly engineered and constructed machine, but this design is a kludgy way to handle RAM. In keeping with the rest of this state-of-the-art machine, IBM probably should have installed 256K RAMs instead of four times as many ...
3
CLR via C#
If all of this seems a bit kludgy to you, you are understanding it correctly—this is all a bit kludgy. Later in this chapter, I'll show some valid reasons for using EIMIs. Generic Interfaces C#'s and the CLR's support of generic interfaces.
Jeffrey Richter, 2010
4
My DROID: (Covers DROID 3/Milestone 3, DROID Pro, DROID X2, ...
It's. Not. All. Good. Corporate Name Search Is Kludgy The DROID Incredible 2 has a kludgy way of searching for corporate contacts. Unlike other DROIDs that search your corporate directory as you type someone's name into the To field, these ...
Craig James Johnston, 2011
5
Web Design Before & After Makeovers
The problem is that table-based layouts are kludgy: Tables were meant to display spreadsheetlike data, not to be used as the primary building block for Web design. (Not sure what is meant by kludgy? Check out the Web site to the right.) ...
Richard Wagner, 2006
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Multi-Platinum Pro Tools
In a very short time, Antares AutoTune went from being a littleknown, kludgy piece of software that was able to work pitch correction miracles, to being a widely known, kludgy piece of software that can work pitch correction miracles.
Nathan Adam, Brady Barnett, 2009
7
COMMON LISP: The Language
For example: (string-capitalize " hello ") => " Hello " (string-capitalize "occlUDeD cASEmenTs F0reSTAll iNADVertent DEFenestraTI0N") => "0ccluded Casements Forestall Inadvertent Defenestration" (string-capitalize 'kludgy-hash-search) ...
Guy L. Steele, 1990
8
Ajax Patterns and Best Practices
What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML. This is the reason for creating Common Data functionality. The Common Data functionality replaces the kludgy calling of the functions with some common ...
Christian Gross, 2006
9
Contemporary American slang
The kid kluged a program for us in an hour. kludgy ['kbd3i OR 'klud3i] mod. having to do with an inefficient or sloppily written computer program. □ This program is too kludgy to be acceptable. □ Who wrote this kludgy mess? □ / don't care if ...
Richard A. Spears, 1991
10
PC Mag
You can even create vilural screens far larger than the display screen. Sick of running out of string space? Store hundreds of K in numeric arrays or megab tea in extended or expanded memory. Tlied of using 3 kludgy SHELL to DIR Io read a ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KLUDGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kludgy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Asus Chromebook Flip review
I also have an old C720, which I love, but non-backlit keys are inconvenient at night, in bed, and it's a little kludgy to use. As I'm coming up on ... «ITworld, Jul 15»
2
IT sees little demand for complex mobile apps
"It's not well-adopted because it's still kludgy," the managing director said. Another obstacle is the cost of separately licensing and supporting ... «TechTarget, Jul 15»
3
Employer Plans?
4) Employer plans are the nexus of a kludgy mix of tax and social policy, embodied in the tax benefits provided for retirement savings and all the tax ... «PLANSPONSOR, Jul 15»
4
2015 Honda Display Audio
On the other hand, all-touch operation can often prove to be kludgy, and sometimes downright dangerous. We wouldn't be surprised if a ... «PC Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Apple Music - the lowdown
There's also no browser-based player, meaning if you want to listen to music on a computer, you have to do it through kludgy, sludgy ol' iTunes. «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
6
Apple Music is a Mess
There are three qualifications for reviewing iTunes: one should have used it since v.1.0; one should regard it as as a kludgy blob of bloatware ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Nutshell CRM
On the the other hand, it feels kludgy and unnecessary, especially given that Nutshell does a good job of flagging potential duplicate entries in ... «PC Magazine, Jun 15»
8
Sparkle 1.2.3 review: Mac-friendly web design app needs a bit more …
True, the implementation's a bit kludgy. To enjoy full font support on every browser, you have to browse for and add three or four different types ... «Macworld, Jun 15»
9
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and the end of the beginning
They're kludgy as hell. This, sadly, is to be expected. At this point, it's as much a hallmark of Metal Gear as stealth. It's never insurmountable, but ... «Polygon, Jun 15»
10
Halt And Catch Fire: “Play With Friends”
Just as Cardiff Electric, after producing one decent machine and one kludgy knockoff, closed its doors without becoming the major player Joe ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jun 15»

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