| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clumsiness; inelegance |
Synonyms: |
amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness, rudeness, tactlessness, uncoordination, uncouthness, ungainliness, unskillfulness |
Antonyms: |
artfulness, dexterity, elegance, grace, handiness, skill |
| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
Synonyms: |
bulkiness, chanciness, cumbersomeness, danger, hazardousness, inconvenience, peril, perilousness, risk, troublesomeness, uncomfortableness, unhandiness, unmanageability, unwieldiness |
Antonyms: |
convenience, ease, easiness, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embarrassment |
Synonyms: |
delicacy, difficulty, discomfort, inconvenience, inopportuneness, painfulness, stickiness, thorniness, ticklishness, trouble, uncomfortableness, unpleasantness, untimeliness |
Antonyms: |
cleverness |
| Main Entry: | difficulty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | problem; situation requiring great effort |
Synonyms: |
adversity, arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, complication, crisis, crux, dead end, deadlock, deep water, dilemma, distress, emergency, exigency, fix*, frustration, hardship, hazard, hindrance, hitch*, hot water, impasse, knot*, labor, laboriousness, mess, misfortune, muddle, obstacle, obstruction, pain, painfulness, paradox, perplexity, pickle, predicament, quagmire, quandary, scrape*, snag*, stew, strain, strait, strenuousness, struggle, stumbling block, tribulation, trouble |
Antonyms: |
calm, ease, felicity, peace, tranquility |
| Main Entry: | disqualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disability; rejection for participation |
Synonyms: |
awkwardness, clumsiness, debarment, disenablement, disentitlement, elimination, exclusion, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, ineligibility, ineptitude, lack, unfitness, unproficiency |
Antonyms: |
ability, aptitude, capability |
| Main Entry: | embarrassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation, shame |
Synonyms: |
awkward situation, awkwardness, bashfulness, bind, boo boo, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face, faux pas, fix, hitch, hot seat, hot water, impecuniosity, indebtedness, indiscretion, inhibition, mess, mistake, mortification, pickle, pinch, plight, poverty, predicament, puzzle, quandary, scrape, self-consciousness, shyness, snag, stew, strait, tangle, timidity, unease, uneasiness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, confidence |
| Main Entry: | inconvenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
Synonyms: |
aggravation, annoyance, awkwardness, bothersomeness, cumbersomeness, difficulty, disadvantage, disruption, disturbance, drawback, exasperation, fuss, hindrance, nuisance, pain*, stew, trial, troublesomeness, uneasiness, unfitness, unhandiness, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwieldiness, upset, vexation |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, convenience, profit |
| Main Entry: | muddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confused state |
Synonyms: |
ataxia, awkwardness, botch, chaos, clutter, complexity, complication, confusion, daze, difficulty, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, emergency, encumbrance, fog, foul-up, hash, haze, intricacy, involvement, jumble, mess, mess and a half, mix-up, muss, perplexity, plight, predicament, quandary, rat's nest, screw-up, shambles, snarl, struggle, tangle, trouble |
Antonyms: |
enlightenment, order, organization |
| Main Entry: | artlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unskillfulness |
Synonyms: |
awkwardness, clumsiness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, inelegance, ineptitude, uncoordination |
Antonyms: |
coordination, grace |
| Main Entry: | clumsiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maladroitness |
Synonyms: |
awkwardness, heavy-handedness, ineptitude, ungainliness |