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Awkward

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Definitions for Awkward

adjective
causing inconvenience
Examples
  1. they arrived at an awkward time
adjective
lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
Examples
  1. an awkward dancer
  2. an awkward gesture
  3. too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes
  4. his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot
adjective
difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
Synonyms
bunglesome clumsy ungainly
Examples
  1. an awkward bundle to carry
  2. a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
  3. clumsy wooden shoes
  4. the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
adjective
not elegant or graceful in expression
Synonyms
clumsy cumbersome inapt inept ill-chosen
Examples
  1. an awkward prose style
  2. a clumsy apology
  3. his cumbersome writing style
  4. if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
adjective
hard to deal with
Synonyms
embarrassing sticky unenviable
Examples
  1. especially causing pain or embarrassment
  2. awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
  3. an awkward pause followed his remark
  4. a sticky question
  5. in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
adjective
socially uncomfortable
Synonyms
ill at ease(p) uneasy
Examples
  1. unsure and constrained in manner
  2. awkward and reserved at parties
  3. ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
  4. was always uneasy with strangers

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