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Meaning of awkward
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: awkward adj 1: causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time" 2: 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}] 3: 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}] 4: 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}] 5: 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}] 6: 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}]
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