| 单词 | awkwardness |
| 释义 | awkwardness (once / 2211 pages) n WORD FAMILY awkwardness: awkwardnesses+/awkward: awkwarder, awkwardest, awkwardly, awkwardness USAGE EXAMPLESIt is a welcome reset from awkwardness, defensiveness, suspicion. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) Another part of the awkwardness is that the process is supposed to be private. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) The tragedies started a conversation about social isolation and the awkwardness of meeting new people. Salon(Dec 24, 2016) 1n trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape Syn|Hyper cumbersomeness, unwieldiness inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment a difficulty that causes anxiety 2n unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training Syn|Hypo|Hyper clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness rustiness ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice unskillfulness a lack of cognitive skill 3n the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper clumsiness gracefulness beautiful carriage gracelessness, ungracefulness an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression gawkiness, ungainlinessthe carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant stiffnessthe property of moving with pain or difficulty bearing, carriage, posture characteristic way of bearing one's body 4n the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) Syn|Hypo|Hyper clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness woodenness the quality of being wooden and awkward gaucherie, rusticitythe quality of being rustic or gauche inelegance the quality of lacking refinement and good taste 5n the quality of an embarrassing situation he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal Syn|Hyper nuisance value disadvantage the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position |
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