Definition for Awkward:

• lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; " an awkward dancer"; " an awkward gesture"; " too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; " his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"

Synonyms for Awkward:

• adj.

  •clumsy, inelegant (adjective)
  • green,
  • amateurish,
  • maladroit,
  • uncoordinated,
  • graceless,
  • unfit,
  • klutzy,
  • rude,
  • unskillful,
  • ungainly,
  • incompetent,
  • inept,
  • artless,
  • stumbling,
  • ungraceful,
  • bungling,
  • Unhandy,
  • uncouth,
  • bumbling,
  • butterfingers,
  • having two left feet,
  • unpolished,
  • having two left hands,
  • stiff,
  • oafish,
  • Floundering,
  • coarse,
  • unskilled,
  • all thumbs,
  • Blundering,
  • bulky,
  • lumbering,
  • gawky,
  • unrefined,
  • inexpert.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • obstinate.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • intractable.
  •difficult to handle (adjective)
  • dangerous,
  • incommodious,
  • hard to use,
  • Discommodious,
  • chancy,
  • disagreeable,
  • hazardous,
  • inconvenient,
  • unmanageable,
  • uncomfortable,
  • cumbersome,
  • annoying,
  • risky,
  • unwieldy,
  • troublesome,
  • cramped,
  • perilous.
  •disobliging (adjective)
  • unaccommodating.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • embarrassed,
  • trying,
  • ticklish,
  • difficult,
  • inopportune,
  • painful,
  • perplexing,
  • delicate,
  • ill at ease,
  • unpleasant,
  • untimely,
  • sticky,
  • thorny,
  • compromising.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • fractious.
  •gauche (adjective)
  • ham-handed.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • lumpish,
  • heavy-laden.
  •hulky (adjective)
  • hulky.
  •ill at ease (adjective)
  • fidgety,
  • out of place.
  •improper (adjective)
  • unwarranted,
  • unfitting,
  • unbefitting,
  • Unapt.
  •inappropriate (adjective)
  • wrong,
  • untimely.
  •inelegant (adjective)
  • gross,
  • unrefined,
  • graceless,
  • tasteless,
  • undignified,
  • gawky,
  • inelegant,
  • uncivil,
  • boorish,
  • coarse,
  • crude,
  • barbarous,
  • vulgar,
  • rude,
  • raw,
  • tactless,
  • earthy,
  • clumsy,
  • unpolished,
  • brutish,
  • tawdry.
  •inopportune (adjective)
  • inauspicious,
  • inconvenient,
  • premature,
  • delinquent,
  • untimely,
  • inopportune,
  • inappropriate,
  • unpunctual,
  • inexpedient,
  • belated,
  • infelicitous.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  •poor (adjective)
  • sloppy.
  •self-conscious (adjective)
  • self-conscious.
  •ungraceful (adjective)
  • Uncourtly.
  •unskillful (adjective)
  • unpracticed,
  • incompetent,
  • unpolished,
  • graceful,
  • inexperienced,
  • gauche,
  • bumbling,
  • Skill-less,
  • inexpert,
  • unskillful,
  • unskilled,
  • dexterous,
  • rusty,
  • inept,
  • left-handed,
  • crude,
  • green,
  • amateurish,
  • stiff.
  •untrained (adjective)
  • unskilled.

• n.

  •
  • jerky,
  • robotic,
  • convulsive.
  •
  • contentious,
  • disruptive,
  • klutzy,
  • adverse,
  • troublesome,
  • lumpish,
  • bad,
  • problematic,
  • fraught,
  • ability,
  • invidious.
  •
  • challenging,
  • bumbling,
  • complicated,
  • gauche,
  • arduous,
  • tough,
  • taxing,
  • demanding,
  • heavy-handed,
  • punishing.
  •
  • guilty,
  • unfortunate,
  • humiliating,
  • unhappy,
  • painful,
  • shameful,
  • good,
  • ignominious.
  •
  • inhibited,
  • easy,
  • insecure,
  • retiring,
  • bulky,
  • uncertain,
  • timid,
  • lost,
  • shy,
  • tentative.
  •
  • constrained,
  • feelings.
  •awkward (noun)
  • graceless,
  • labored,
  • uneasy,
  • unmanageable,
  • inapt,
  • clumsy,
  • sticky,
  • inept,
  • embarrassing,
  • bunglesome,
  • unenviable,
  • strained,
  • difficult,
  • infelicitous,
  • ungraceful,
  • ill at ease,
  • unwieldy,
  • inconvenient,
  • gawky,
  • wooden,
  • hard,
  • cumbersome,
  • ungainly,
  • laboured,
  • uncomfortable,
  • clunky,
  • ill-chosen.
  •embarrassing (noun)
  • delicate,
  • touchy.
  •inconvenient (noun)
  • disagreeable,
  • heavy,
  • cramped,
  • ponderous,
  • incommodious.
  •uncomfortable (noun)
  • embarrassed,
  • self-conscious,
  • ashamed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bumbling,
  • hulking,
  • butterfingers,
  • onerous,
  • straitened,
  • insupportable,
  • halting,
  • constrained,
  • convulsive,
  • jerky,
  • unseemly,
  • awkwardly,
  • stilted,
  • unseasonable,
  • accident-prone,
  • robotic,
  • klutzy,
  • ignominious,
  • shameful,
  • intolerable,
  • ignoble,
  • humiliating.
  •
  • impossible,
  • thorny,
  • embarrassed,
  • Fiendish,
  • angular,
  • insoluble,
  • intractable,
  • neat,
  • ungovernable.
  •
  • heavy,
  • tricky,
  • hypersensitive,
  • unrelenting,
  • painful,
  • ticklish,
  • chronic,
  • inaccessible.
  •
  • guilty,
  • unhappy,
  • bulky.
  •
  • critical.
  •
  • unfortunate.
  •
  • delicate.
  •
  • gray.
  •awkward
  • flat-footed,
  • heavy-handed.
  •bungling
  • loutish.
  •clumsy
  • elephantine,
  • lubberly,
  • left-handed,
  • lumbering.
  •formal
  • stiff.
  •incompetent
  • inexpert.
  •inconvenient
  • Unhandy.
  •uncomfortable
  • incommodious,
  • uncomfortable.
  •uncouth
  • gauche,
  • unsophisticated.
  •unsuitable
  • improper,
  • unbecoming.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fraught,
  • dangerous,
  • la-di-da,
  • flat,
  • bothersome,
  • unmanageable,
  • constrained,
  • hefty,
  • ineffectively,
  • illiberally,
  • cramped,
  • abrupt,
  • inadequately,
  • disobliging,
  • hangdog,
  • quizzical,
  • studied,
  • plebeian,
  • knotty,
  • hard,
  • subject,
  • contrary,
  • shy,
  • slatternly,
  • modest,
  • distinctly,
  • ominous,
  • pin,
  • problematical,
  • tentative,
  • muff,
  • confounding,
  • unacquainted,
  • plainly,
  • coarsely,
  • ignoble,
  • maliciously,
  • clumsily,
  • segregate,
  • risky,
  • hesitant,
  • clearly,
  • stupidly,
  • wearisome,
  • tense,
  • expressionless,
  • overcast,
  • big,
  • untrained,
  • trouble,
  • cloddish,
  • accident-prone,
  • ill,
  • feeble,
  • impracticable,
  • wooden,
  • unwieldy,
  • dispense,
  • self-conscious,
  • tricky,
  • fastidious,
  • sore,
  • Ox-like,
  • humiliating,
  • finicky,
  • Fiendish,
  • odd,
  • butterfingers,
  • tiresome,
  • unfortunate,
  • uninitiated,
  • depart,
  • disconcerted,
  • Massy,
  • puzzle,
  • unbeautiful,
  • characterize,
  • baffling,
  • mortifying,
  • desperate,
  • ill-mannered,
  • lowly,
  • lumbering,
  • comfortless,
  • difficulty,
  • ruggedly,
  • vexatious,
  • iffy,
  • guilty,
  • fractious,
  • unkempt,
  • provincial,
  • inefficient,
  • unacquainted with,
  • adverse,
  • angular,
  • intractable,
  • finical,
  • clumsy person,
  • grotesque,
  • ignorant,
  • rudely,
  • maladroitly,
  • unhappy,
  • injudicious,
  • perversely,
  • annoying,
  • harsh,
  • unproficient,
  • massive,
  • gravid,
  • objectionable,
  • embarrassingly,
  • improper,
  • anxious,
  • having two left hands,
  • handless,
  • untamed,
  • problem,
  • convulsive,
  • disingenuously,
  • inartistic,
  • formal,
  • case,
  • slovenly,
  • fantastic,
  • untried,
  • forced,
  • intricate,
  • gauche,
  • detach,
  • blackguard,
  • unsteady,
  • crotchety,
  • groping,
  • artless,
  • awkwardly,
  • restless,
  • quit,
  • unfinished,
  • ticklish,
  • high-flown,
  • thumb,
  • good,
  • inadequate,
  • turgid,
  • awkwardness,
  • dull,
  • unskilful,
  • ashamed,
  • basic,
  • backward,
  • insecure,
  • crudely,
  • unskillfully,
  • laughable,
  • stubborn,
  • out of place,
  • approximately,
  • spiritless,
  • ill timed,
  • bombastic,
  • ungainly,
  • query,
  • poor,
  • faltering,
  • describe,
  • ill-chosen,
  • substantial,
  • halting,
  • severe,
  • discombobulated,
  • rough-hewn,
  • unenviable,
  • disquieting,
  • disconnect,
  • uncertain,
  • lifeless,
  • convoluted,
  • great,
  • incapable,
  • lurching,
  • Unlicked,
  • dilemma,
  • problematic,
  • differentiate,
  • ham-handed,
  • weighty,
  • whimsical,
  • insupportable,
  • trackless,
  • split,
  • vacant,
  • bulky,
  • insufficient,
  • incompetently,
  • lame,
  • cumbersomely,
  • critical,
  • ill-advised,
  • disruptive,
  • openly,
  • nervous,
  • muggy,
  • inhibited,
  • unaesthetic,
  • falling behind,
  • thoughtless,
  • lumpish,
  • unposted,
  • uneven,
  • unwise,
  • passionless,
  • knotted,
  • nescient,
  • splay,
  • off-putting,
  • blunt,
  • Unhandsome,
  • gray,
  • put on,
  • clumsiness,
  • clunky,
  • unladylike,
  • rusty,
  • discomfited,
  • bad-mannered,
  • leaden,
  • fumbling,
  • unqualified,
  • obstinate,
  • stiffness,
  • shameful,
  • bungling,
  • discriminate,
  • aggravating,
  • dissociate,
  • miscarry,
  • ill-bred,
  • riddle,
  • mumbling,
  • ineffectual,
  • mucilaginous,
  • insensitive,
  • uninformed,
  • burdensome,
  • distressed,
  • enigma,
  • useless,
  • heavily,
  • discern,
  • infringe,
  • must not,
  • job,
  • nolo,
  • Overtly,
  • unknowing,
  • pastoral,
  • flimsy,
  • classify,
  • lubberly,
  • pretentious,
  • stupid,
  • heavy,
  • patently,
  • queasy,
  • furious,
  • inopportunely,
  • tight,
  • unconfident,
  • unsuitably,
  • disagreeable,
  • Shaming,
  • chunky,
  • invidious,
  • sloppy,
  • perplexing,
  • tightfisted,
  • issue,
  • ridiculous,
  • come apart,
  • miscue,
  • ill-conceived,
  • rickety,
  • homely,
  • warm,
  • faulty,
  • impractical,
  • funny,
  • unsettling,
  • fidgety,
  • pass on,
  • unbefitting,
  • dry,
  • evidently,
  • offensive,
  • hazardous,
  • Unapprized,
  • bare,
  • perilous,
  • complicated,
  • apprehensive,
  • uneasy,
  • impossible,
  • uncouth,
  • lumpy,
  • hypersensitive,
  • tough,
  • labored,
  • serious,
  • Difficile,
  • ponderous,
  • disturbing,
  • deviate,
  • inflated,
  • helpless,
  • perverse,
  • baroque,
  • hairy,
  • conundrum,
  • carelessly,
  • untoward,
  • talentless,
  • abashed,
  • bizarre,
  • arduous,
  • reserved,
  • shrinking,
  • bunglesome,
  • untalented,
  • gawkish,
  • countrified,
  • hesitating,
  • impassive,
  • poorly,
  • disturbed,
  • chronic,
  • meek,
  • wrong,
  • viscid,
  • heavy with child,
  • edgy,
  • Discommodious,
  • unrelenting,
  • rustic,
  • split up,
  • unseasonable,
  • punishing,
  • imprudent,
  • retiring,
  • confused,
  • unprepossessing,
  • robotic,
  • troublesome,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • specious,
  • Incondite,
  • indiscreet,
  • heavy-handed,
  • shambling,
  • flat-footed,
  • mindless,
  • break,
  • sever,
  • unconformable,
  • testy,
  • passionate,
  • contrived,
  • imperfect,
  • refractory,
  • plaguy,
  • Uncourtly,
  • inexpert,
  • sensitive,
  • easy,
  • inane,
  • timorous,
  • left-hand,
  • ungracefully,
  • gruff,
  • glutinous,
  • complex,
  • bluff,
  • stinging,
  • rigid,
  • botched,
  • deep,
  • unmannerly,
  • crushing,
  • shamefaced,
  • ungentlemanlike,
  • neat,
  • snag,
  • uncalled-for,
  • compromising,
  • sinister,
  • ponderousness,
  • touchy,
  • uncultivated,
  • tender,
  • uncivilized,
  • worrying,
  • thin,
  • voluminous,
  • coy,
  • unflattering,
  • not to,
  • dumb,
  • ungovernable,
  • rugged,
  • weird,
  • unskilled,
  • indelicate,
  • place,
  • disadvantageous,
  • vacuous,
  • green,
  • incoherent,
  • taxing,
  • empty-headed,
  • swab,
  • hulky,
  • ominously,
  • adversely,
  • nit-picking,
  • indecorous,
  • galoot,
  • Looby,
  • dead,
  • unable,
  • timid,
  • ugly,
  • oversized,
  • tedious,
  • question,
  • demanding,
  • hopeless,
  • on edge,
  • unripe,
  • puzzling,
  • unilluminated,
  • colourless,
  • brusque,
  • butterfingered,
  • fanciful,
  • uncultured,
  • droll,
  • rum,
  • mean,
  • comical,
  • chancy,
  • inadvisable,
  • doltish,
  • silly,
  • unlovely,
  • bewildering,
  • nonprofessional,
  • Blunderingly,
  • inefficiently,
  • unpersuasive,
  • hard to use,
  • unenlightened,
  • pasty,
  • oafish,
  • embarrassing,
  • misshapen,
  • lofty,
  • stuttering,
  • ability,
  • farcical,
  • viscous,
  • pollex,
  • ignominious,
  • heavy-laden,
  • distinguish,
  • uncoordinated,
  • affected,
  • Disrupting,
  • unintelligent,
  • inconsiderate,
  • rowdy,
  • maladroit,
  • unquiet,
  • Scuttling,
  • painful,
  • nasty,
  • ungracious,
  • untactful,
  • ungraceful,
  • ludicrous,
  • knot,
  • yokel,
  • difficult,
  • graceful,
  • unversed,
  • slow,
  • inexperienced,
  • half-baked,
  • unpleasing,
  • jerky,
  • quaint,
  • unsuitable,
  • Sinisterly,
  • Irksome,
  • Floundering,
  • Discommoding,
  • emotional,
  • stammering,
  • cleave,
  • dragging,
  • unprofessional,
  • obviously,
  • feelings,
  • gummy,
  • Lumping,
  • inelegantly,
  • inconveniently,
  • unanimated,
  • heavyweight,
  • crabby,
  • klutzy,
  • go,
  • bad,
  • unseemly,
  • precarious,
  • Flustering,
  • gaucherie,
  • ill at ease,
  • sheepish,
  • impolitic,
  • hulking,
  • undo,
  • troubled,
  • unfitting,
  • Unpolitic,
  • Plaguing,
  • ill-formed,
  • Unconversant,
  • awfully,
  • inaccurate,
  • ham-fisted,
  • simple,
  • ineptly,
  • foolish,
  • sloppily,
  • left-handed,
  • ineffective,
  • challenging,
  • stiff,
  • unsympathetic,
  • intolerable,
  • Inkhorn,
  • pathless,
  • warped,
  • provoking,
  • ponderously,
  • clownish,
  • parlous,
  • wavering,
  • vexing,
  • outlandish,
  • thorny,
  • severely,
  • fragile,
  • break down,
  • bashful,
  • cumbersome,
  • untaught,
  • inapt,
  • unstylish,
  • insoluble,
  • strange,
  • divide,
  • self-effacing,
  • savage,
  • in a tizzy,
  • eccentric,
  • impertinent,
  • inaccessible,
  • bucolic,
  • homespun,
  • unsavoury,
  • weak,
  • fussy,
  • naive,
  • tangled,
  • snobbish,
  • elephantine,
  • laden,
  • irritating,
  • unnatural,
  • artificial,
  • debatable,
  • unsure,
  • onerous,
  • empty,
  • apparently,
  • Blundering,
  • undiplomatic,
  • sylvan,
  • grossly,
  • stressful,
  • lost,
  • disconcerting,
  • know-nothing,
  • roughly,
  • primitive,
  • feckless,
  • Invious,
  • distressing,
  • gluey,
  • Discomforting,
  • laboured,
  • steamy,
  • Discomfiting,
  • crosswise,
  • unpleasant,
  • matter,
  • trying,
  • laborious,
  • lubber,
  • ineffectually,
  • confusing,
  • slouching,
  • Non-natural,
  • isolate,
  • unaccommodating,
  • insincere,
  • unsophisticated,
  • screaming,
  • disrespectful,
  • bovine,
  • clod,
  • Unhandy,
  • all thumbs,
  • unfamiliar,
  • Fumbled,
  • mannered,
  • prickly,
  • galling,
  • huge,
  • impolite,
  • delicate,
  • apathetic,
  • in the way,
  • particular,
  • touch-and-go,
  • queer,
  • Incommoding,
  • having two left feet,
  • embarrassed,
  • Unapt,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Euphuistic,
  • unbecoming,
  • unimpassioned,
  • shifting,
  • stumbling,
  • strained,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • Butter-fingered,
  • badly,
  • unwarranted,
  • loutish,
  • poser,
  • deadpan,
  • discourteous,
  • unconvincing,
  • large,
  • straitened,
  • uncomprehending,
  • manifestly,
  • unnerving,
  • rough,
  • incommodious,
  • cranky,
  • dissever,
  • baffle,
  • callow,
  • embarrass,
  • stilted,
  • bumbling,
  • unpractised,
  • barbaric,
  • meanly,
  • fail,
  • uncomfortable,
  • grandiloquent,
  • uncombed,
  • unwieldiness,
  • careless,
  • upsetting,
  • innocent,
  • diffident,
  • unfit,
  • makeshift,
  • cumbrous,
  • contentious,
  • shuffling,
  • cack-handed,
  • unpromising,
  • undexterous,
  • pompous,
  • sticky.

Antonyms for Awkward:

• adj.

  • all
    graceful.
  • clumsy, inelegant
    convenient, dexterous, straightforward, artful, skillful, graceful, clever, handy, easy, adroit, elegant.
  • difficult to handle
    safe, secure, helpful.
  • embarrassing
    painless, pleasant, delightful.
  • Other antonyms:
    cool, willowy, diplomatic, professional, effortless, functional, endurable, pleasing, able, advantageous, contradiction, gracious, competent, capable, assured, undisturbed, tolerable, useful, agreeable, nonsense, nimble, sure-handed, paradox, serene, tranquil, practical, desirable, self-assured, polished, placid, self-possessed, serviceable, practicable, tactful, acceptable, sophism, poised, confident, helpful, composed, secure, sufferable, coordinated, absurdity, self-confident, demonstration, calm, unperturbed, wieldy, felicitous, collected, facile, bearable.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    amiable, comfy, courtly, diffuse, diffused, manageable, soft.