| ADJECTIVE | all | awkward | causing inconvenience |
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| all | awkward | lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | |
| all | awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly | difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | |
| all | awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen | not elegant or graceful in expression | |
| all | awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable | hard to deal with | |
| all | awkward, ill at ease, uneasy | socially uncomfortable |
| Sounds | aa'kwerd; ao'kwerd | |
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| Rhymes | Abelard ... word / Word: 269 rhymes with erd... | |
| Meaning | Causing inconvenience. | |
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| Example | "they arrived at an awkward time" | |
| Broader | inconvenient | not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs |
| Spanish | fastidioso, inconveniente, inoportuno, problemático | |
| Catalan | inconvenient, inoportú, problemàtic | |
| Meaning | lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance. | |
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| Narrower | gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy | lacking grace in movement or posture |
| graceless, ungraceful | lacking grace | |
| labored, laboured, strained | lacking natural ease | |
| wooden | lacking ease / ease or grace | |
| See also | maladroit | not adroit |
| ugly | displeasing to the senses | |
| Opposite | graceful | Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution |
| Spanish | desgarbado, desmañado | |
| Nouns | awkwardness | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training |
| Adverbs | awkwardly | in an awkward manner |
| Meaning | Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape. | |
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| Example | "an awkward bundle to carry" | |
| Synonyms | bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly | |
| Broader | unwieldy, unmanageable | Difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape |
| Spanish | incómodo | |
| Catalan | incòmode | |
| Nouns | awkwardness | trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape |
| Meaning | not elegant or graceful in expression. | |
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| Example | "an awkward prose style" | |
| Synonyms | clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen | |
| Broader | infelicitous | not appropriate in application |
| Spanish | impropio, inapropiado, inepto | |
| Nouns | awkwardness | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training |
| Meaning | Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. | |
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| Synonyms | embarrassing, sticky, unenviable | |
| Broader | difficult, hard | not easy |
| Spanish | delicado, difícil, dificultoso, duro | |
| Catalan | delicat, difícil, dificultós, dur | |
| Nouns | awkwardness | the quality of an embarrassing situation |
| Meaning | socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner. | |
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| Example | "awkward and reserved at parties" | |
| Synonyms | ill at ease, uneasy | |
| Broader | uncomfortable | conducive to or feeling mental discomfort |
| Nouns | awkwardness | the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment / embarrassment) |
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