awkward
adjective
[ ˈɔːkwəd ]
• causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with.
• "some awkward questions"
Similar:
difficult,
tricky,
fiddly,
cumbersome,
unwieldy,
unhandy,
a devil,
a bastard,
cumbrous,
lumbersome,
inconvenient,
inappropriate,
inopportune,
unfortunate,
unseasonable,
a bugger,
• causing or feeling uneasy embarrassment or inconvenience.
• "you have put me in a very awkward position"
Similar:
embarrassing,
uncomfortable,
unpleasant,
delicate,
ticklish,
tricky,
sensitive,
problematic,
problematical,
troublesome,
perplexing,
thorny,
vexatious,
humiliating,
compromising,
sticky,
dicey,
hairy,
cringeworthy,
cringe-making,
dodgy,
gnarly,
embarrassed,
self-conscious,
ill at ease,
uneasy,
tense,
nervous,
edgy,
unrelaxed,
strained,
unquiet,
• not smooth or graceful; ungainly.
• "Luther's awkward movements impeded his progress"
Similar:
clumsy,
ungainly,
uncoordinated,
maladroit,
graceless,
ungraceful,
inept,
inelegant,
unskilful,
unhandy,
all thumbs,
gauche,
gawky,
gangling,
blundering,
lumbering,
cloddish,
wooden,
stiff,
coltish,
all fingers and thumbs,
clodhopping,
ham-fisted,
ham-handed,
with two left feet,
cack-handed,
lubberly,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘the wrong way round, upside down’): from dialect awk ‘backwards, perverse, clumsy’ (from Old Norse afugr ‘turned the wrong way’) + -ward.
