'awkward' definitions:
Definition of 'awkward'
From: WordNet
adjective
Causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
adjective
Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot" [ant: graceful]
adjective
Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" [syn: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly]
adjective
Not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]
adjective
Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" [syn: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable]
adjective
Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers" [syn: awkward, ill at ease(p), uneasy]
Synonyms of 'awkward'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all thumbs,
- blankminded,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- callow,
- careless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- confused,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- crushing,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- discomfited,
- discommodious,
- disconcerted,
- disconcerting,
- disturbing,
- dumb,
- elephantine,
- embarrassed,
- embarrassing,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fingers all thumbs,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- green,
- groping,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- hazardous,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- humiliating,
- ignorant,
- ill at ease,
- ill-chosen,
- impractical,
- inane,
- incommodious,
- inconvenient,
- inefficient,
- inelegant,
- inept,
- inexperienced,
- inexpert,
- inkhorn,
- innocent,
- know-nothing,
- labored,
- Latinate,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- mortifying,
- naive,
- nescient,
- oafish,
- out of place,
- perilous,
- perverse,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- precarious,
- raw,
- rigid,
- risky,
- sensitive,
- sesquipedalian,
- shamefaced,
- simple,
- sloppy,
- splay,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- turgid,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomfortable,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- uncouth,
- undexterous,
- uneasy,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unfortunate,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unmanageable,
- unpleasant,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- unsure,
- unversed,
- unwieldy,
- vacuous,
- wooden