All awkward synonyms
awk·ward
A a adj awkward
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- ungraceful — lacking charm or elegance; awkward.
- unpolished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- unrefined — not refined; not purified, as substances: unrefined metal.
- unskilled — of or relating to workers who lack technical training or skill.
- unskillful — not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- klutzy — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- all thumbs — clumsy
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- unhandy — not skillful in manual work: He's unhandy when it comes to fixing things around the house.
- chancy — Something that is chancy involves a lot of risk or uncertainty.
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- unmanageable — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- incommodious — inconvenient, as not affording sufficient space or room; uncomfortable: incommodious hotel accommodations.
- discommode — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- ill at ease — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
- inopportune — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
- perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- sticky — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
- thorny — abounding in or characterized by thorns; spiny; prickly.
- trying — extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
- untimely — not timely; not occurring at a suitable time or season; ill-timed or inopportune: An untimely downpour stopped the game.
- compromising — If you describe information or a situation as compromising, you mean that it reveals an embarrassing or guilty secret about someone.