| 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" |
| breadfruit | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. artocarpus altilis, artocarpus communis, breadfruit, breadfruit tree | native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread. |
| ~ breadfruit | a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts. |
| ~ artocarpus, genus artocarpus | evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit. |
| ~ fruit tree | tree bearing edible fruit. |
| n. (food) | 2. breadfruit | a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts. |
| ~ edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh. |
| ~ artocarpus altilis, artocarpus communis, breadfruit, breadfruit tree | native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread. |
| louse up | | |
| v. (social) | 1. ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | make a mess of, destroy or ruin.; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
| ~ go wrong, miscarry, fail | be unsuccessful.; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
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