Words and phrases that have a meaning related to awkward: (162 results)
Antonyms:
graceful
Often used in the same context:
uncomfortable, clumsy, ungraceful, embarrassing, ungainly, odd, comical, weird, stilted, tricky, touchy, amusing, inelegant, unseemly, uneasy, strange, silly, discomforting, goofy, irritating, prickly, annoying, cringeworthy, dicey, embarassing, sheepish, stagy, funny, maladroit, problematic, unpleasant, excruciating, testy, gawky, incongruous, tense, unsatisfying, inopportune, endearing, undignified, wobbly, surreal, ticklish, inconvenient, ironic, irksome, disconcerting, kissy, tetchy, snippy, unsettling, unappealing, unconvincing, unanimated, stagey, amiable, innocuous, squirmy, jarring, chummy, messy, unorthodox, impromptu, clunky, giggly, precarious, disorienting, unnatural, bizarre, unposed, awful, unflattering, inarticulate, perplexing, hairy, quizzical, uncharacteristic, unfamiliar, unfortunate, frustrating, farcical, painful, unattractive, mortifying, baffling, peculiar, delicate, unnerving, difficult, perfunctory, hilarious, tactless, indelicate, unpromising, distasteful, unsmooth, unladylike, fortuitous, unromantic, distracting, unforthcoming, unkind, exasperating, oddest, disagreeable, hesitant, queer, relaxed, together, troublesome, uncouth
Appears in the definition of:
awkwardly, clamber, clod, construction, contretemps, cub, design, embarrassing, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, gawk, goon, graceful, greenhorn, hobbledehoy, how-d'ye-do, how-do-you-do, in-between, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, predicament, rookie, slip, solecism, stumblebum, the devil, turn, wall, word-for-word
Synonyms:
Also try:bunglesome, cumbersome, graceless, hard, ill-chosen, ill at ease, inapt, inept, infelicitous, labored, laboured, sticky, strained, unenviable, unmanageable, unwieldy, wooden
— Nouns for awkward: position, silence, situation, questions, moment, pause, way, moments, question, situations, manner, more...
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