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awkward

English

  1. 🔊 socially uncomfortable
    “awkward and reserved at parties”
  2. 🔊 causing inconvenience
    “they arrived at an awkward time”
  3. 🔊 hard to deal with
    “awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion”
  4. 🔊 not elegant or graceful in expression
    “an awkward prose style”
  5. 🔊 lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
    “an awkward dancer”
  6. 🔊 difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
    “an awkward bundle to carry”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 embarazoso awkward
  2. 🔊 incómodo awkward

Similar words

ill at ease(p) uneasy embarrassing sticky unenviable clumsy cumbersome inapt inept ill-chosen bunglesome clumsy ungainly latinate all thumbs blankminded blunderheaded blundering bombastic boorish bulky bumbling bungling butterfingered