Awkward

['ɔːkwəd] or ['ɔkwɚd]

解释:

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) causing inconvenience; 'they arrived at an awkward time' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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?' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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' .

艾弗里校对--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.

(a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.

(a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.

霍华德编辑

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.[2]. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.[3]. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.

卡里校对

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Ungainly, clownish, clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, uncouth, rough, boorish,bungling, gawky

ANT:Neat, clever, dexterous, skilful, adroit, handy

录入:露西

解释:

adj. clumsy: ungraceful: embarrassed: difficult to deal with: (Shak.) unfavourable: (obs.) froward.—adj. Awk′wardish.—adv. Awk′wardly clumsily embarrassingly dangerously.—n. Awk′wardness.

杰奎琳编辑