bakiwag : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

bakiwag :

awkward (adj.)

Synonyms: bakikaw

Derivatives of bakiwag

Glosses:

awkward
adj.	1. awkward	causing inconvenience.; "they arrived at an awkward time"
	~ inconvenient	not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs.; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone"
adj.	2. awkward	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"
	~ maladroit	not adroit.; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"
	~ ugly	displeasing to the senses.; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
	~ clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy	lacking grace in movement or posture.; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
	~ ungraceful, graceless	lacking grace; clumsy.; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"
	~ labored, laboured, strained	lacking natural ease.; "a labored style of debating"
	~ wooden	lacking ease or grace.; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"
adj.	3. awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly	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"
	~ unmanageable, unwieldy	difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape.; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"
adj.	4. awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept	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?"
	~ infelicitous	not appropriate in application; defective.; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
adj.	5. awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable	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"
	~ difficult, hard	not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
adj.	6. awkward, ill at ease, uneasy	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"
	~ uncomfortable	conducive to or feeling mental discomfort.; "this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable"; "the uncomfortable truth"; "grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye"; "an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest"; "the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable"