Main entry: 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
Antonyms: graceful
Definition: characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
Antonyms: wieldy
Definition: easy to handle or use or manage
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: comfortable, comfy
Definition: providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
Antonyms: comfortable
Definition: free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind
Main entry: awkward
Definition: causing inconvenience
Usage: they arrived at an awkward time
Antonyms: convenient
Definition: suited to your comfort or purpose or needs
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: manageable
Definition: capable of being managed or controlled
Antonyms: wieldy
Definition: easy to handle or use or manage
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: easy
Definition: posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
Antonyms: soft
Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight
Antonyms: soft
Definition: compassionate and kind; conciliatory
Antonyms: soft
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
Antonyms: diffuse, diffused, soft
Definition: (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
Main entry: 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?
Antonyms: felicitous
Definition: exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style