AWKWARDNESS Synonyms

• the state of being tense and feeling pain

• an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

• the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

• the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)

• some event that causes someone to be embarrassed

• extreme excess

• embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you

• self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you

• a feeling of fear of embarrassment

• physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

• the trait of seeming ill at ease

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

• trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

• anxious embarrassment

• an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• the quality of lacking refinement and good taste

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

• lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

• the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

• the property of moving with pain or difficulty

• firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• excessive sternness

• the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity

• trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

• the quality of an embarrassing situation