| NOUN | cognition | awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training |
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| attribute | awkwardness, nuisance value | the quality of an embarrassing situation | |
| attribute | awkwardness, clumsiness | the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | |
| attribute | awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness | the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment / embarrassment) | |
| attribute | awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness | trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape |
| Sounds | ao'kwerdnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training. | |
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| Synonyms | clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness | |
| Narrower | rustiness | ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice |
| Broader | unskillfulness | A lack of cognitive skill |
| Spanish | desmaña, ineptitud, torpeza | |
| Catalan | ineptitud | |
| Adjectives | awkward | lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance |
| awkward | not elegant or graceful in expression | |
| Meaning | The quality of an embarrassing situation. | |
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| Example | "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal" | |
| Synonym | nuisance value | |
| Broader | disadvantage | The quality of having an inferior or less favorable position |
| Spanish | incomodidad, inconveniencia, molestia, torpeza | |
| Catalan | incomoditat, inconveniència, molèstia | |
| Adjectives | awkward | hard to deal with |
| Meaning | The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant. | |
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| Synonym | clumsiness | |
| Narrower | gawkiness, ungainliness | The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant |
| gracelessness, ungracefulness | An unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | |
| stiffness | The property of moving with pain or difficulty | |
| Broader | carriage, bearing, posture | characteristic way of bearing one's body |
| Opposite | gracefulness | beautiful carriage |
| Meaning | The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment / embarrassment). | |
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| Synonyms | clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness | |
| Narrower | rusticity, gaucherie | The quality of being rustic / rustic or gauche |
| woodenness | The quality of being wooden and awkward | |
| Broader | inelegance | The quality of lacking refinement and good taste |
| Spanish | chambonada, desgarbo, desmaña, torpeza | |
| Adjectives | awkward | socially uncomfortable |
| Meaning | Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape. | |
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| Synonyms | cumbersomeness, unwieldiness | |
| Broader | troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment | A difficulty that causes anxiety |
| Adjectives | awkward | difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape |
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