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All awkward synonyms

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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.
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