awkward

Adjective
  1. Causing inconvenience (synset 300607783)
    "they arrived at an awkward time"
    similar to: inconvenient - not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
  2. Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance (synset 301144030)
    "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
    also:
    similar to:
  3. Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape (synset 302574753)
    "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
    similar to: unmanageable, unwieldy - difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
    same as: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly
  4. Not elegant or graceful in expression (synset 301004599)
    "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?"
    similar to: infelicitous - not appropriate in application; defective
    same as: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept
  5. Hard to deal with;
    Especially causing pain or embarrassment (synset 300749659)
    "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"
    similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
    same as: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable
  6. Socially uncomfortable;
    Unsure and constrained in manner (synset 300482429)
    "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
    similar to: uncomfortable - conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
    same as: ill at ease, uneasy

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