Synonyms for awkwardness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : awk-werd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔk wərd |
Top 10 synonyms for awkwardness
- chanciness
- cloddishness
- cumbersomeness
- danger
- delicacy
- difficulty
- gawkiness
- gracelessness
- greenness
- hazardousness
- inability
- incompetence
- inconvenience
- ineptness
- inexpertness
- inopportuneness
- maladroitness
- oafishness
- painfulness
- perilousness
- risk
- rudeness
- stickiness
- tactlessness
- thorniness
- ticklishness
- trouble
- troublesomeness
- uncomfortableness
- uncoordination
- uncouthness
- ungainliness
- unhandiness
- unmanageability
- unpleasantness
- unskillfulness
- untimeliness
- unwieldiness
Définition of awkwardness
Origin :- 1704, "lack of grace," from awkward + -ness. Meaning "physical clumsiness" is attested from c.1770; that of "social embarrassment" is from 1788.
- noun clumsiness; inelegance
- noun difficulty
- noun embarrassment
- If there's any awkwardness about it, it sha'n't be on my side.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Borrowed help has the awkwardness which Emerson attributes to borrowed thoughts.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Could she have reckoned upon weaning me from him by a display of his awkwardness?
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- By the awkwardness of the unpacker, the statue's thumb was broken.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- She felt the awkwardness of being surrounded by people with whom she was unacquainted.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- He sometimes brought with him friends of his, who delighted in our awkwardness.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- You know there is an awkwardness in my meddling ever so cautiously.
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- I tried to break through her awkwardness but entirely without avail.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- But Helen went on without apparently noticing his awkwardness.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- In a moment something of the awkwardness of the encounter occurred to him.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
Antonyms for awkwardness
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