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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | awkward | Causing inconvenience |
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| 2 | awkward | Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | |
| 3 | awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly | Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | |
| 4 | awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen | Not elegant or graceful in expression | |
| 5 | awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable | Hard to deal with | |
| 6 | awkward, ill at ease, uneasy | Not at ease socially |
| Sounds | aa'kwerd; ao'kwerd |
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| Rhymes | Abelard, absurd, acquired, and 275 more rhymes in erd... |
| Meaning | Causing inconvenience. |
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| Examples | "they arrived at an awkward time" |
| Similar to | inconvenient |
| Meaning | Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance. |
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| Examples | "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot" |
| Contrary | graceful |
| Similar | gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy; graceless, ungraceful; labored, laboured, strained; wooden |
| See also | maladroit; ugly |
| Nouns | awkwardness |
| Adverbs | awkwardly |
| Meaning | Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape. |
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| Examples | "an awkward bundle to carry" |
| Synonyms | bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| Similar to | unwieldy, unmanageable |
| Nouns | awkwardness |
| Meaning | Not elegant or graceful in expression. |
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| Examples | "an awkward prose style" |
| Synonyms | clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen |
| Similar to | infelicitous |
| Nouns | awkwardness |
| Meaning | Hard to deal with. Especially causing pain or embarrassment. |
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| Examples | "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark" |
| Synonyms | embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| Similar to | difficult, hard |
| Nouns | awkwardness |
| Meaning | Not at ease socially. Unsure and constrained in manner. |
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| Examples | "awkward and reserved at parties" |
| Synonyms | ill at ease, uneasy |
| Similar to | uncomfortable |
| Nouns | awkwardness |
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