lacking grace or ease in movement: an awkward gesture;an awkward dancer.Synonyms: uncoordinated, graceless, ungainly; gawky; maladroit; clumsy. Antonyms: graceful.
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lacking social graces or manners: a simple, awkward frontiersman.Synonyms: gauche, unpolished, unrefined; blundering, oafish; ill-mannered, unmannerly, ill-bred. Antonyms: gracious; polite, well-mannered, well-bred; smooth, polished, refined.
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not well planned or designed for easy or effective use: an awkward instrument;an awkward method.Synonyms: unwieldy, cumbersome, unmanageable; inconvenient, difficult, troublesome.
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requiring caution; somewhat hazardous: an awkward turn in the road.Synonyms: dangerous, risky, unsafe, chancy; perilous, precarious, treacherous.
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hard to deal with; difficult; requiring skill, tact, or the like: an awkward situation;an awkward customer.
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embarrassing or inconvenient; caused by lack of social grace: an awkward moment.Synonyms: unpleasant, trying, difficult; uncomfortable, ticklish, touchy.
Origin: 1300–50;Middle English, equivalent to awk(e), auk(e) ‘backhanded’, Old English*afoc (< Old Norseǫfugr ‘turned the wrong way’; cognate with Old Saxon,Old High Germanabuh,Old Englishafu(h)lic ‘wrong’, off) + -ward-ward
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.