Synonyms: uneasy, awkward, ill at ease
Definition: socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
Usage: awkward and reserved at parties; ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know; was always uneasy with strangers
Similar words: uncomfortable
Definition: conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
Usage: this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable; the uncomfortable truth; grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye; an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest; the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable
Synonyms: awkward
Definition: causing inconvenience
Usage: they arrived at an awkward time
Similar words: inconvenient
Definition: not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
Usage: it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen; the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone
Synonyms: awkward, unenviable, sticky, embarrassing
Definition: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
Usage: 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 words: difficult, hard
Definition: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Usage: a difficult task; nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access; difficult times; why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
Synonyms: inept, ill-chosen, inapt, cumbersome, awkward, clumsy
Definition: not elegant or graceful in expression
Usage: 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 words: infelicitous
Definition: not appropriate in application; defective
Usage: an infelicitous remark; infelicitous phrasing; the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy
Synonyms: awkward
Definition: lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
Usage: an awkward dancer; an awkward gesture; too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes; his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot
Similar words: ungainly, unwieldy, clumsy, clunky, gawky
Definition: lacking grace in movement or posture
Usage: a gawky lad with long ungainly legs; clumsy fingers; what an ungainly creature a giraffe is; heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
Similar words: ungraceful, graceless
Definition: lacking grace; clumsy
Usage: a graceless production of the play; his stature low...his bearing ungraceful- Sir Walter Scott
Similar words: strained, labored, laboured
Definition: lacking natural ease
Usage: a labored style of debating
Similar words: wooden
Definition: lacking ease or grace
Usage: the actor's performance was wooden; a wooden smile
Synonyms: ungainly, bunglesome, clumsy, awkward
Definition: difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
Usage: an awkward bundle to carry; a load of bunglesome paraphernalia; clumsy wooden shoes; the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
Similar words: unwieldy, unmanageable
Definition: difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
Usage: we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter; almost dropped the unwieldy parcel