AWKWARD Synonyms

• not adroit

• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

• causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• generally incompetent and ineffectual

• revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• causing an emotional disturbance

• lacking social polish

• not suitable for a particular occasion etc

• not in keeping with what is correct or proper

• not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs

• not conveniently timed

• lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

• conducive to or feeling mental discomfort

• providing or experiencing physical discomfort

• lacking in cooperative planning and organization

• lacking the skillful and effective interaction of muscle movements

• too soon; in a premature manner

• badly timed

• uncommonly early or before the expected time

• difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape

• difficult to work or manipulate

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• an unsteady uneven gait

• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

• walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly

• miss a step and fall or nearly fall

• encounter by chance

• make an error

• clumsy and unskilled

• inexperienced in seamanship

• lacking grace; clumsy

• Of a person, or movement: not handy, inept, clumsy, not dexterous.

• Awkward; not convenient.