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awkwardness

noun

1 awkwardness

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.

synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness.

Roget 704: difficulty; hardness etc. adj.; impracticability etc. (impossibility) 471; tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, ... show more

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    ... show more

Dutch: linksheid, lompheid, onbeholpenheid, onhandigheid, stijfheid

2 awkwardness

The quality of an embarrassing situation:
— He sensed the awkwardness of his proposal.

synonym: nuisance value.

Dutch: onhandigheid
Polish: wstydliwość

3 awkwardness

The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant.

synonym: clumsiness.

Polish: niezgrabność

4 awkwardness

The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment).

synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness.

Dutch: gehannes, geklooi

5 awkwardness

Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape.

synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness.

Polish: niezręczność


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