Awkward

Definition: Awkward

Awkward

Adjective

1. Causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time".

2. Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot".

3. Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl".

4. Not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?".

5. Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign".

6. Not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers".

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Date "awkward" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Awkward \Awk"ward\, adjective. [Awk -ward.]. (references)

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

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Synonyms: Awkward

Bungler

No conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot.

Difficulty

Awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn; (obstinate); perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine; (convoluted); intricate, complicated; (tangled); impracticable; (impossible); not feasible; desperate; (hopeless).

Falsehood

Phrase: blandae mendacia lingua; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus; "I give him joy that's awkward at a lie"; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas; "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath".

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Inexpedience

Clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky; unmanageable; (impracticable); impedient; (in the way).

Pain

Irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy; awkward.

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Unskillfulness

Adjective: unskillful; inexpert; bungling;Verb: awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Crosswords: Awkward

Only you choose such awkward times (Sylvia Scarlett; writing credit: Compton MacKenzie; Gladys Unger)

Clarice, there's nothing I'd love more in the world than to chat with you. Unfortunately, you've caught me at an awkward moment (Hannibal; writing credit: David Mamet)

Oh my God, Randy this is so awkward you walking on me and Zac like this (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

It does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

On dry land, where ordinary people walk, the swan is awkward, even ridiculous (The Swan; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; John Dighton)

Tryin' to lose the awkward teenage blues (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

When I caught a guy givin me an awkward eye (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Innocent But Awkward (1914)

An Awkward Cinderella (1914)

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Books

• A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (reference)

• An Awkward Lie (reference)

• An Awkward Partner (reference)

• Assertiveness at Work: A Practical Guide to Handling Awkward Situations (reference)

• Awkward Angel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Awkward (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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It's awkward to settle things by thinking, she answered. One ought just to know. Credit: Library of Congress.

The awkward squad. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering

It was an awkward ceremony at any time to be receiving wedding visits, and a man had need be all grace to acquit himself well through it.

He had an equivocal prudence and an awkward boldness

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Health

Other features may include feeding and respiratory problems, developmental delay, hearing impairment, awkward gait, flat feet, and heart and kidney involvement. (references)

While a child with severe cerebral palsy might be unable to walk and need extensive, lifelong care, a child with mild cerebral palsy might only be slightly awkward and require no special assistance. (references)

RMDs may be caused by overexertion, incorrect posture, muscle fatigue, compression of nerves or tissue, too many uninterrupted repetitions of an activity or motion, or friction caused by an unnatural or awkward motion such as twisting the arm or wrist. (references)

Business

Both the machinery and technology used in roll forming are imported--early imports were heavy duty, and have proven awkward to adapt to different applications. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

When Swiss voters decided in December 1992 to reject the European Economic Area (EEA) Treaty, Switzerland found itself in the awkward position of being located in the heart of Europe, but not part of the EEA or a member of the EU. With some two-thirds of its exports going to Europe, the government pursues policies aimed at maintaining Switzerland's competitiveness in Europe while seeking to diversify its export markets. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "awkward": awkward age ♦ awkward customer ♦ awkward person ♦ awkward position ♦ awkward problem ♦ awkward remark ♦ awkward situation ♦ Awkward squad ♦ be awkward ♦ damn awkward ♦ in an awkward situation ♦ it's a sort of awkward ♦ the awkward age. Additional references.

Beginning with "awkward": awkward-looking, awkward-shaped, awkward-sized, awkward-to-handle.

Albanian

kaba (bulky, clumsy, cubbish, horsy, hulking, lubberly, lumpy, ponderous, unwieldy), i vështirë (convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, rough, scabrous, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying), i rëndë (arduous, artless, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), i pavolitshëm (cumbersome, unhandy), i pakëndshëm (bad, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, repellent, ugly, unattractive, uncongenial, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm), i ngathët (angular, atonic, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير ملائم (awkwardly, clumsy, disadvantageous, inadequate, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurate, inconvenient, inept, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhandy, unseemly, unsuitable, untidy, untimely), ‏صعب المراس (churlish, indocile, intractable, problem, sticky, ungainly, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward), ‏خطر (adventurous, advise, challenge, come, critical, danger, dangerous, embargo, fear, give smb. notice, hazard, importance, jeopardy, parlous, peril, perilous, poisonous, prohibition, proscription, risk, risky, unhealthy), ‏أخرق (bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

труден (arduous, complex, difficile, difficult, dodgy, formidable, heavy, knotty, laborious, lively, painful, perplexed, perplexing, pick-and-shovel, rocky, sore, spiny, stroppy, taxing, thorny, ticklish, tight, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, warm), тромав (bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, rude, shambling, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy), опасен (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), несръчен (all thumbs, blundering, bungling, butterfingered, clumsy, heavy-handed, inept, left handed, maladroit, two-fisted, unapt, unskilful, untoward), неудобен (bulky, comfortless, cramped, embarrassing, incommodious, inconvenient, invidious, self conscious, uncomfortable, unhandy), неловък (cramped, self conscious, uneasy), непохватен (artless, bumbling, chuckle, clumsy, gawky, heavy, lubberly, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful), мъчен (difficult, formidable, hairy, ill, rum, rummy, stiff, tight, tough, trying), мъчителен (afflictive, agonizing, cruel, exasperating, excruciating, grievous, grinding, gruelling, harassing, harrowing, heavy, nerve racking, painful, sticky, tantalizing, torturous, traumatic, trying, vexatious). (various references)

Chinese 

笨拙 (clumsy, stupid). (various references)

Czech

trapný (bothersome, embarrassing, gauche, painful, vexatious, wearing), ožehavý (burning, delicate, knotty, thorny), ošemetný (delicate, dodgy), nepříjemný (annoying, difficult, disagreeable, embarrassing, irksome, irritating, miserable, nasty, objectionable, sticky, troublesome, uncomfortable, uncongenial, uneasy, unpleasant, unsavory, untoward, vexatious), neohrabaný (bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, gauche, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hulking, inept, unwieldy, wooden), nemotorný (bumbling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, oafish, ungainly, unskillful), nešikovný (butter-fingered, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, inept, maladroit, unskillful, unwieldy), mrzutý (annoying, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious), hloupý (brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, inane, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thick, thickskulled). (various references)

Danish

uhåndterlig (awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy). (various references)

Dutch

plomp (yellow water-lily), log (logarithm). (various references)

Esperanto

mallerta, malgracia. (various references)

Farsi 

ناشی (Gauche, Ill, Jackleg, Laity, Maladroit, Muff, Rube, Unperfect), غیراستادانه , سرهم بند, زشت (Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), خامکار, بی لطافت (Arid, Jejune). (various references)

Finnish

tukala (difficult, embarrassing, hard), tökerö, piinallinen (embarrassing, painful), kömpelö (clumsy, ham-handed), hankalakäyttöinen (awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy), hankala käsitellä (cumbersome). (various references)

French

maladroit. (various references)

German

ungelenk (clumsy, stodgily, ungainly, ungraceful, ungracefully), peinlich (careful, disconcerting, distressing, embarrassing, embarrassingly, lurid, meticulous, mortifying, mortifyingly, nasty, painful, painstaking, scrupulous, scrupulously, uncomfortable), ungeschickt (awkwardly, clownish, clumsy, gauche, gauchely, implausible, inapt, inept, inexpertly, maladroit, schlemiel, unadept, unfortunate, unfortunately, unhandily, unintelligent, unskilful, unskilfully, unskilled, unskillful, unskillfully), ungünstig (adverse, awkwardly, disadvantageous, expensive, inauspicious, inconvenient, inconveniently, unfavorable, unfavorably, unfavourable, unfavourably, unflattering, unfortunate, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward), unbeholfen (clumsy, gauche, gauchely, gawky, helpless, inept, putter, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unskillful, unskillfully, unwieldy, wooden), unangenehm (disagreeable, disagreeably, disconcerting, displeasing, embarrassing, grating, invidious, mawkish, nasty, objectionably, painful, tough, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, uncomfortably, uncongenial, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasantly, unpleasing, unwelcome, upsetting), täppisch (clumsy), linkisch (clumsy, fumbling, gauche, gauchely, inept). (various references)

Greek 

σκαιόσ (curmudgeonly, lubberly, philistine, snippy, tactless), άτεχνοσ (artless, coarse, crude, inartistic, splay), ατζαμής (beginner, clodhopper), αδέξιοσ (clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful), αδέξιος (gawky, heavy-handed, inept, maladroit), δυσχείριστος (awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ושם (burly, clown, clumsy, gawky, gross, hulking, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy), מסורבל (clumsy, complicated, hulking, maladroit, ungainly), כב�" ת� וע�" (clumsy, logy), �'למ� י (clumsy, gauche). (various references)

Hungarian

kínos (disagreeable, embarrassing, grating, sticky, to sew up sy's stockings, uncomfortable, uneasy), félszeg (gauche, graceless, lopsided, shy, ungainly, ungraceful), esetlen (bearish, clumsy, cubbish, fumbling, gauche, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, lubberly, unwieldy, wooden), alkalmatlan (importunate, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inconvenient, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, mistimed, trying, unfeasible, unfit, unsuitable, unsuited, unwelcome), ügyetlen (blundering, clumsy, freshwater, fumbling, gawky, gimp, half-assed, impolitic, inexpert, left handed, lumpish, maladroit, uneasy, unhandy, unskilful, unskillful). (various references)

Indonesian

rikuh (clumsy), kaku (curt, gauche, numb, rigid, stark, stiff), kagok, janggal (clumsy, disprove, inept), gabir (clumsy, maladroit), canggung (clumsy, crass, gauche, ill mannered). (various references)

Italian

voluminoso (bulky, heavyset, voluminous), sgraziato (clumsy, gawky, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ungainly, ungraceful), scomodo (comfortless, inconvenient, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy, unintimate), maldestro (all thumbs, clumsy, gauche, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, ill at ease, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit, unhandy), legato (ambassador, bound, legacy, legate, legato), inopportuno (Amiss, ill timed, ill-judged, impolitic, inopportune, unsuitable, untimely, wrong), ingombrante (bulky, cumbersome, unwieldy), impacciato (clumsy, helpless, uneasy, unwieldy), goffo (clumsy, cubbish, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, hobbledehoy, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy), difficile (arduous, catchy, difficult, difficult to please, fastidious, hard, inconvenient, problem, rough, severe, stiff, strained, stressful, tight, tough, tricky, trying, uneasy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重苦しい (cumbrous, gloomy, heavy, leaden, oppressive), 照れ臭い (embarrassing), 照れくさい (embarrassing), 気不味い (unpleasant), きりきり舞い (a whirl, awkwardness, clumsy, constrained, corrugated, crude, going round and round, jagged, jerkiness, mashed sweet potato, milled, neat, notched, rushing a person off his feet, serrated, shrill, smart, spruce, stiff, stiff-mannered, stiltedness, strained atmosphere, thin and bony, unrefined), ふるいに掛ける (abundant, baggy, by chance, casually, complaining, drifting, floating, fully, grumbling, hmm, huh, humph, in plenty, lavish, loose-fitting or baggy, pish, plentiful, pshaw, to sieve, to sift, too big, weightlessness), 不器�"� (clumsy, lack of ability, unskillfulness), 不� �好 (clumsy, misshapen, shapeless), 不味い (bungling, ugly, unappetising, unpleasant, unskilful, untimely, unwise), 下手 (humble position, left part of the stage, lower direction, lower part, poor, the foot, unskillful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎ�"ちない (crude, stiff, stiff-mannered, unrefined), ぎ�"ちない (clumsy, constrained, stiff), おもくるしい (cumbrous, gloomy, heavy, leaden, oppressive), きまずい (unpleasant), まずい (bungling, ugly, unappetising, unpleasant, unskilful, untimely, unwise), ぶきっちょ , ぶきよう (awkwardness, clumsiness, clumsy, lack of ability, unskillfulness), ぶかっ�"う (clumsiness, clumsy, misshapen, shapeless, unshapeliness), ふかっ�"う (clumsy, misshapen, shapeless), へた (calyx, poor, stem, unskillful), てれくさい (embarrassing). (various references)

Korean 

서두른. (various references)

Manx

turlogh, staghylagh (clumsy), staagagh (hobbling, lame, staggery), neulauee (unhandy), neuaashagh (difficult, discontented, restless, uneasy), mertragh (maladroit). (various references)

Norwegian

klosset, keitet. (various references)

Pig Latin

awkwarday.(various references)

Portuguese

inábil (maladroit, muff, unskilful), desastrado (bumbling, butterfinger, disastrous, fumbling, heavy-handed, left-handed, maladroit), desajeitado (backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Romanian

ambarasant (embarrassing), stângaci (artless, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), periculos (baleful, breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, grave, parlous, perilous, perniciously, risky, trappy, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), nepotrivit (bad, discordant, dissonant, ill-matched, ill-sorted, improper, inadequate, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incapable, incongruous, inconsistent, incorrect, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, insufficient, intrusive, irrelevant, malapropos, misbecoming, off color, off colour, out of character, out of date, out of point, timeless, unapt, unbecoming, uncalled for, uncomely, undue, unequal, unfit, unmeet, unseasonable, untimely, unwarranted), neîndemânatic (awkwardly, buckram, butter fingers, butter-fingered, clumsily, clumsy, fumbling, gawky, inapt, left handed, lubberly, maladroit, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, unversed), mãtãhãlos (bulky, clumsy, deformed, gawky, heavy, hulking), jenant (annoying, delicate, embarrassing, painful, tedious, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpleasant), incomod (clumsy, comfortless, incommodious, inconvenient, tedious, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy), impropriu (improper, unapt, wrong), greu (annoying, arduous, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), dificil (abstract, captious, choosy, cross-grained, dainty, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, involved, nice, parlous, qualmish, scabrous, spiny, stiff, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding), încãpãţânat (contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard, headstrong, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stolid, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

неудобный (difficult-to-use, incommodious, inconvenient, unchristian, uncomfortable, undesirable, uneasy, unhandy). (various references)

Scottish

logais , logaist, liobasta (clumsy, slovenly), ciotach (left-handed, sinister), cearbach (tattered). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trapavo, nezgrapno, nezgrapan (clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, gangling, gauche, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy), nespretan (clumsy, gawky, left handed, maladroit, unhandy), neprijatan (disagreeable, harsh, nasty, offensive, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, ungracious, unkind, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury), neokretan (ungainly). (various references)

Spanish

torpe (blockish, blundering, bumbling, butterfingered, butterfingers, clumsy, duffer, dull, dullish, fathead, heavy, labored, laboured, left handed, left-hander, logy, lumberingly, rough, shiftless, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, stodgily, thick, torpid, wall eyed), poco manejable, pesado (boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty), perfilado que presenta dificultad de manejo (awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy), incómodo (comfortless, cumbersome, ill at ease, incommodious, inconvenient, uncomfortable), embarazoso (cumbersome, embarrassing), difícil (arduous, complicated, complicative, delicate, difficile, difficult, grave, hard, heavy, off putting, painful, picky, problem, tender, touch and go, tough, tricky, wild), desgarbado (gawky, slovenly, ungainly, unlovely), ñango (clumsy, short-legged, weak). (various references)

Swedish

tafatt (clumsy, flatfooted, gauche, gawky, heavy-handed, inept, left handed, maladroit, tag), klumpig (cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Thai

ที่ไม่สะ�"วกสบาย, งุ่มง่าม (cack-handed, ham-handed). (various references)

Turkish

aksi (adverse, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded), zorluk çıkaran (obstructive), ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), sakar (butterfingered, clumsy, gawky, heavy-handed, left handed, maladroit, oaf, sacchar-, ungainly, unhandy), kullanışsız (disabled, impracticable, impractical, incommodious, unadaptable, unhandy, unpractical, unwieldy, unworkable, useless), garip (bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), beceriksiz (bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Turkmen 

mьяnьrgemek (feel uneasy, self-couscious), emelsiz (unskilled). (various references)

Ukrainian

скрутний (baffling, difficult, embarrassing, narrow, necessitous, onerous, spiny), трудний (difficult), важкий (arduous, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, leaden, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty), незручний (comfortless, incommodious, inconvenient, objectionable, uncomfortable, uneasy), незграбний (angular, artless, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), неловкий (cubbish, ill at ease), небезпечний (adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked), недоладний (fussy, off-key, slouch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng về lúng túng (awkwardly), rầy r� (pesky, troublesome), nguy hiểm khó xử, ngượng ngịu bất tiện; khó khăn. (various references)

Welsh

anghyfleus (inconvenient), afrwydd (clumsy, difficult, stiff), trwstan (clumsy, untoward), trwsgl (bungling, clumsy), llibin (clumsy, feeble, limp), lletchwith (clumsy), chwithig (bizarre, strange, wrong), carbwl (clumsy). (various references)

brutus, inconcinnus, scevae. (various references)

goffe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "awkward": awkwarder, awkwardest, awkwardly, awkwardness, awkwardnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Awkward" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ackward, akward, Alkawari, alkward, arkward, auckward, aukward, awckward, awkard, awkwark, awlwort, Awwad, Gaekwad, gaekwar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: award.

-3 letters: arak, dark, dawk, draw, ward, wark.

-4 letters: ark, awa, dak, daw, rad, raw, wad, war, waw.

-5 letters: aa, ad, ar, aw, ka.

+2 letters: awkwarder, awkwardly.

+3 letters: awkwardest.

+4 letters: awkwardness.