awkwardness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
Types & categories
- unskillfulness hypernym
- rustiness hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the quality of an embarrassing situation
he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal
Types & categories
- disadvantage hypernym
Related & opposite
- unenviable derivation
Sense 3 noun
the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
Types & categories
- posture hypernym
- gracelessness hyponym
- gawkiness hyponym
- stiffness hyponym
Related & opposite
- gracefulness antonym
- clunky derivation
Sense 4 noun
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Types & categories
- inelegance hypernym
- woodenness hyponym
- gaucherie hyponym
Related & opposite
- ill at easep derivation
- gauche derivation
- inept derivation
- buckram derivation
- ungraceful derivation
Sense 5 noun
trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano
Types & categories
- troublesomeness hypernym
Related & opposite
- unmanageable derivation
- bunglesome derivation
- cumbersome derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | maladroit |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dumb |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inept |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | awkward |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bungling |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unskillfulness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rustiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unenviable |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | disadvantage |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | gracefulness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clunky |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | posture |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | gracelessness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | gawkiness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | stiffness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ill at easep |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | gauche |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | inept |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | buckram |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ungraceful |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelegance |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | woodenness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | gaucherie |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | unmanageable |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bunglesome |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cumbersome |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | troublesomeness |