| 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" |
| grotesque | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. grotesque | art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants. |
| ~ art, fine art | the products of human creativity; works of art collectively.; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" |
| adj. | 2. grotesque, monstrous | distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" |
| ~ ugly | displeasing to the senses.; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" |
| adj. | 3. antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque | ludicrously odd.; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" |
| ~ strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| queer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer | offensive term for an openly homosexual man. |
| ~ derogation, disparagement, depreciation | a communication that belittles somebody or something. |
| ~ gay man, shirtlifter | a homosexual man. |
| v. (social) | 2. baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" |
| ~ disappoint, let down | fail to meet the hopes or expectations of.; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage" |
| ~ foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid | keep from happening or arising; make impossible.; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" |
| ~ dash | destroy or break.; "dashed ambitions and hopes" |
| ~ short-circuit | hamper the progress of; impede.; "short-circuit warm feelings" |
| ~ ruin | destroy or cause to fail.; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election" |
| v. (communication) | 3. endanger, expose, peril, queer, scupper | put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position. |
| ~ affect, bear upon, bear on, impact, touch on, touch | have an effect upon.; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
| ~ compromise | expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy" |
| adj. | 4. curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular | beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" |
| ~ strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| adj. | 5. gay, homophile, queer | homosexual or arousing homosexual desires. |
| ~ homosexual | sexually attracted to members of your own sex. |
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