AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: ADJECTIVE
- Requiring great tact, ingenuity, skill, and discretion.
- Clumsily or unskillfully performed.
- Not dexterous; clumsy.
- Not graceful; ungainly.
- Marked by or causing embarrassment or discomfort.
- Difficult to effect; uncomfortable.
- Difficult to handle or manage.
- Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- Not elegant or graceful in expression
- Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- Causing inconvenience
- Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- Not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner
- Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments
- Perverse; adverse; untoward.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful
- Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
- Clumsy; lacking grace.
- Unsuitable; unprofitable.
- Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth.
- Difficult to move or use; unwieldy.
- Lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy.
- Lacking grace in movement or posture
- Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: ADVERB
- In a backwards direction.
- In an ungainly manner.
AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Ill adapted for use or handling; unhandy in operation; clumsy: as, awkward instruments or contrivances.
- Wanting dexterity or skill in action or movement; clumsy in doing anything, as in using tools or implements; bungling.
- Ungraceful in action or person; ungainly; uncouth: as, awkward gestures; the awkward gambols of the elephant.
- Embarrassed; not at ease: used in relation to persons: as, an awkward feeling.
- Not easily dealt with; troublesome; vexatious; requiring caution: as, an awkward predicament.
- Unlucky.
- Synonyms and Awkward, Clumsy, Ungainly, Uncouth, Bungling, unhandy, inexpert, unskilful, inapt, lubberly; uncourtly, inelegant, constrained, clownish. Awkward is generally applied to want of ease and grace or skill in bodily movement, especially of the arms or legs: as, an awkward gait; awkward in the use of a tool. Clumsy starts from the notion of heaviness, and consequent unwieldiness or awkwardness in use; it is applicable to the whole body or to any part of it, even when still: as, a clumsy figure; clumsy hands. This difference is also found in the figurative use of the words: a clumsy excuse is one that is put together badly; an awkward excuse is one that may be good, but is not gracefully presented. Ungainly, literally unhandsome, not pleasing to the eye, is applied generally to awkwardness of appearance. Uncouth, literally unknown, uncommon, and so, by a bit of human conceit, uninstructed, untrained, unrefined, sometimes even rude, barbarous: as, uncouth phrases, manners. Bungling, awkward in doing, handling awkwardly, spoiling by awkwardness, in either literal or figurative use: as, he made bungling work of it.
- Perverted; perverse.
- Turned the wrong way; backhanded.
- Awkwardly; clumsily.
- Asquint.
- In the wrong direction; in the wrong way; backward.
- Untoward; adverse.
- Socially uncomfortable
- Hard to deal with
- Unsure and constrained in manner
- In an awkward manner; clumsily; uncouthly.
- Synonyms Uncouth, Bungling, etc. See awkward and clumsy.
- Awkward; clumsy; uncouth: as, an ungainly carriage.
- Unfit; vain.
AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: RELATED WORDS
- Graceless, Sticky, Infelicitous, Unwieldy, Cumbersome, Difficult, Clunky, Inconvenient, Gawky, Uneasy, Ungainly, Embarrassing, Ungraceful, Clumsy, Uncomfortable
- Bulky, Cumbersome, Gangly, Ungraceful, Ponderous, Inelegant, Weedy, Elephantine, Bunglesome, Unmanageable, Unwieldy, Gawky, Awkward, Clumsy, Clunky
AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Graceless, Sticky, Infelicitous, Unwieldy, Cumbersome, Difficult, Clunky, Inconvenient, Gawky, Uneasy, Ungainly, Embarrassing, Ungraceful, Clumsy, Uncomfortable
- Bulky, Cumbersome, Gangly, Ungraceful, Ponderous, Inelegant, Weedy, Elephantine, Bunglesome, Unmanageable, Unwieldy, Gawky, Awkward, Clumsy, Clunky
AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Should I apologize for the awkward midweek intrusion?
- And a DJ could make things awkward, even.
- Tom gave a very awkward answer on Jeopardy.
- Positioning yourself to use comfortable, not awkward, postures.
- An awkward moment, they each sip their champagne.
- Jocks teach an awkward situation turns kinky things.
- Sometimes the animation can look awkward and creepy.
- Removed some awkward NPCs near the Calpheon Parliament.
- Transport and develop cassettes Mammography imaging equipment Awkward posture to position mammography equipment and patient Forceful and awkward gripping posture to carry cassettes.
- Most Awkward Pictures from Pets at Awkward Family Photos.
- Body kits galore, it just makes this Subaru look big, ungainly, and ugly.
- Furthermore, much greater thank you for not calling and making it ungainly.
- Their hasty and ungainly retreat is known today as the Runaway Scrape.
- Denmark, he jumped at the sound of it, and ungainly to handle.
- They were ungainly and unbalanced too, demanding a substantial wooden tripod.
- Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,.
- Bolas had extremly callously librated after the ungainly undissembling voltameter.
- Three Strikes would be a painstaking, ungainly process at best.
- Bontrager Solstice can feel a bit more ungainly and heavier.
- The kicking motion is so unbalanced and ungainly.
AWKWARD vs UNGAINLY: QUESTIONS
- What can we learn from these awkward subway Pictures?
- How to deal with Awkward Silences in a relationship?
- Are there any socially awkward characters in anime?
- Should you ask awkward questions in a relationship?
- How to network at conferences without being awkward?
- What factors affect awkward postures in the workplace?
- What are some movies with socially awkward protagonists?
- Does being socially awkward affect your creativity?
- Why does Tyler the creator sound awkward in awkward?
- Are awkward people just awkward people who have awkward moments?
- Why does Richard Avedon's photo of a ballet dancer look ungainly?