DICTOMETER

UBEHAGELIG (Norwegian for "awkward")

(awkward, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, loathsome, lousy, rancid, uncomfortable, unpleasant, unpleasing, asqueroso, desagradable, desgraciado, feo, incómodo)

1. Synonyms:
   • Awkward
   Definitions:
   • causing inconvenience
   Examples:
   • They arrived at an awkward time
   Antonyms:
   • Convenient
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Awkward
   Definitions:
   • lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
   Examples:
   • 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
   • elegant
   • fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth
   • gainly
   • gracile, willowy
   • lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Awkward
   • Bunglesome
   • Clumsy
   • Ungainly
   Definitions:
   • difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
   Examples:
   • An awkward bundle to carry
   • A load of bunglesome paraphernalia
   • Clumsy wooden shoes
   • The cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
   Antonyms:
   • Wieldy
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Awkward
   • Clumsy
   • Cumbersome
   • Inapt
   • Inept
   • Ill-chosen
   Definitions:
   • not elegant or graceful in expression
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Awkward
   • Embarrassing
   • Sticky
   • Unenviable
   Definitions:
   • hard to deal with
   • especially causing pain or embarrassment
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Awkward
   • Ill at ease
   • Uneasy
   Definitions:
   • socially uncomfortable
   • unsure and constrained in manner
   Examples:
   • Awkward and reserved at parties
   • Ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
   • Was always uneasy with strangers
   Antonyms:
   • Comfortable