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Meaning of awkward
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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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