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| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, inelegant |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, artless, bulky, bungling, butterfingers*, coarse, gawky, graceless, green*, incompetent, inept, inexpert, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful, all thumbs, blundering, bumbling, floundering, having two left feet, having two left hands, klutzy, stumbling, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to handle |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bulky, chancy, cramped, cumbersome, dangerous, disagreeable, hazardous, inconvenient, perilous, risky, troublesome, uncomfortable, unmanageable, unwieldy, discommodious, hard to use, incommodious, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | convenient, easy, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | embarrassing |
| Synonyms: | delicate, difficult, embarrassed, ill at ease, inconvenient, inopportune, painful, perplexing, sticky*, thorny*, ticklish*, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, untimely, compromising |
| Antonyms: | clever |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bulky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | awkward, beefy, big, colossal, cumbersome, enormous, gross, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, immense, large, long, mammoth, massive, ponderous, substantial, unmanageable, unwieldy, voluminous, weighty, cumbrous, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | insubstantial, miniature, small, thin, tiny |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cramped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congested, overcrowded |
| Synonyms: | awkward, close, confined, crowded, illegible, indecipherable, irregular, little, minute, narrow, packed, restricted, small, tight, tiny, uncomfortable, circumscribed, closed in, crabbed, hemmed in, incommodious, jammed in, pent, squeezed, tucked up, two-by-four |
| Antonyms: | free, open, uninhibited, unobstructed, uncongested, uncramped, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | crotchety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bad-tempered, cantankerous, contrary, crabby*, cranky, cross, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery*, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, waspish, bearish, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, vinegary, waspy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disobliging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, annoying |
| Synonyms: | awkward, disagreeable, discourteous, ill-natured, uncivil, uncongenial, uncooperative, unpleasant, ill-disposed, unaccommodating, unamiable, unhelpful |
| Antonyms: | accommodating, agreeable, civil, cooperative, courteous, mannered, mannerly, polite |
| Main Entry: | embarrassing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | humiliating, shaming |
| Synonyms: | awkward, confusing, delicate, difficult, disagreeable, distressing, disturbing, equivocal, impossible, inconvenient, inopportune, perplexing, puzzling, sensitive, shameful, sticky, ticklish, touchy, tricky, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpropitious, unseemly, worrisome, bewildering, compromising, discomfiting, discommoding, discommodious, disconcerting, distracting, exasperating, incommodious, mortifying, rattling, troubling, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, unshameful |
| Main Entry: | fractious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, cross |
| Synonyms: | awkward, captious, crabby*, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy*, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild, indocile, pettish, scrappy, uncompliant |
| Notes: | factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gangling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rangy |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bony, gawky, lanky, lumbering, skinny, spindly, tall, thin, leggy, long-legged, long-limbed |
| Main Entry: | gauche |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tactless, unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, clumsy, crude, graceless, green, halting, heavy-handed, ignorant, ill-mannered, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, wooden*, bumbling, ham-handed, ill-bred |
| Antonyms: | elegant, graceful, mannerly, polished, refined, sophisticated, tactful, tasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gawky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy |
| Synonyms: | awkward, gauche, loutish*, lumbering, lumpish*, lumpy, maladroit, oafish, rude, rustic, uncouth, ungainly, bumbling, clownish, splay |
| Antonyms: | athletic, graceful, lithe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | graceless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, coarse, corrupt, crude*, forced, gauche, gawky*, ill-mannered, improper, indecorous, inelegant, inept, loutish, oafish, outlandish, rough, rude, shameless, tasteless, uncouth, uncultured, unfortunate, ungainly, unhappy, clunky, infelicitous, klutzy, two left feet, unmannered |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, charming, dexterous, elegant, graceful, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | halting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hesitant |
| Synonyms: | awkward, clumsy, doubtful, gauche, imperfect, indecisive, inept, irresolute, labored, lumbering, maladroit, slow, tentative, uncertain, vacillating, wavering, wooden*, bumbling, claudicant, faltering, limping, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unhandy, vacillatory |
| Antonyms: | flowing, smooth, unhesitating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hefty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, bulky |
| Synonyms: | ample, awkward, beefy*, brawny, burly, colossal, cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large, major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable, strapping*, strong, sturdy, substantial, tremendous, unwieldy, vigorous, weighty, large-scale, thumping |
| Antonyms: | slight, small, thin, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill at ease |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling at ease |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, awkward, disturbed, doubtful, edgy, fidgety, hesitant, insecure, nervous, nervous, on edge*, on edge, restless, self-conscious, shy, suspicious, tense, uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettled, unsure, discomfited, disquieted, faltering, on pins and needles, on pins and needles, on tenterhooks, out of place, unrelaxed |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, content, at ease |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill-timed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not occurring at a suitable time |
| Synonyms: | awkward, improper, inappropriate, inconvenient, inept, inopportune, malapropos, unbecoming, unfavorable, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely, unwelcome, badly timed, mistimed, unbefitting |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, convenient, opportune, suitable, welcome, well-timed |
| Main Entry: | inapt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incompetent; not suitable |
| Synonyms: | awkward, banal, clumsy, dull, flat, gauche, ill-suited, improper, inappropriate, incongruous, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, insipid, jejune, maladroit, malapropos, slow, stupid, unable, unfit, unskilled, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, ill-adapted, ill-fitted, inadept, inapposite, infelicitous, undexterous, unfacile, unhandy, unmeet, unproficient |
| Antonyms: | apt, competent, happy, suitable, suited |
| Main Entry: | incompetent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unskillful, unable |
| Synonyms: | amateur, amateurish, awkward, bungling, bush-league*, clumsy, helpless, inadequate, incapable, ineffectual, inefficient, ineligible, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, insufficient, maladroit, raw, unfit, uninitiated, unqualified, unskilled, untrained, useless, disqualified, floundering, not cut out for, not equal to, not have it, out to lunch, unadapted, unequipped, unfitted, unhandy, unproficient |
| Antonyms: | able, adept, capable, competent, dexterous, effective, efficient, experienced, expert, proficient, skillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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