awing
— Adjective
– English
~ inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
awkward
— Adjective
– English
~ causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
awkward
— Adjective
– English
~ difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
awkward
— Adjective
– English
~ 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"
awkward
— Adjective
– English
~ not elegant or graceful in expression; "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?"
awkward
— Adjective
– English
~ hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "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"
awkward
— Adjective
– English
~ socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
awkwardly
— Adverb
– English
~ in an awkward manner; "he bent awkwardly"
awkwardness
— Noun
– English
~ the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
awkwardness
— Noun
– English
~ trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
awkwardness
— Noun
– English
~ unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
awkwardness
— Noun
– English
~ the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
awkwardness
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
awl
— Noun
– English
~ a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes