Synonyms of the word

awkward

• adv. (obsolete) In a backwards direction.
• adj. Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
• adj. Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
• adj. Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
• adj. Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
• n. Someone or something that is awkward.

bunglesome

• adj. Characterised or marked by bungling; ungainly; awkward; incompetent.

clumsy

• adj. awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
• adj. Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
• adj. awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
• n. (informal, fairly rare) A clumsy person.

clunky

• adj. (informal) Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.

cumbersome

• adj. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious.
• adj. Not easily managed or handled; awkward.
• adj. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

embarrassing

• v. present participle of embarrass.
• n. The action of the verb to embarrass.
• adj. Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.

gawky

• adj. awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.

graceless

• adj. Without grace.
• adj. Lacking gracefulness.
• adj. (archaic) Unfortunate.

hard

• adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. Unquestionable.
• adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
• adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
• adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
• adv. (manner) With difficulty.
• adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
• adv. (manner) Compactly.
• adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
• n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

inapt

• adj. Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.

inconvenient

• adj. Not convenient.
• n. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
• n. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

inept

• adj. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
• adj. Unfit; unsuitable.

infelicitous

• adj. Unhappy or unfortunate.
• adj. Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done.

labored

• v. simple past tense and past participle of labor.
• adj. Of an action that is difficult to perform.

laboured

• v. simple past tense and past participle of labour.
• adj. Of an action that is difficult to perform.
• adj. Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

maladroit

• adj. Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.
• n. Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.

sticky

• adj. Able or likely to stick.
• adj. Potentially difficult to escape from.
• adj. Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
• adj. (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
• adj. (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
• adj. (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to…
• adj. (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
• n. A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
• n. (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
• v. (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so…

strained

• adj. Forced through a strainer.
• adj. Under tension; tense.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of strain.

ugly

• adj. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
• adj. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
• adj. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
• adj. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
• adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
• n. (slang) An ugly person or thing.
• n. (Britain, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
• v. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).

uncomfortable

• adj. Not comfortable.
• adj. Experiencing discomfort.
• adj. Uneasy or anxious.
• adj. Put off or disgusted.

uneasy

• adj. (rare) Not easy; difficult.
• adj. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety.
• adj. Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful.
• adj. Causing discomfort or constraint.

unenviable

• adj. Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.

ungainly

• adj. Clumsy; lacking grace.
• adj. Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
• adj. (obsolete) Unsuitable; unprofitable.
• n. (rare) An ungainly person or thing.
• adv. (obsolete) In an ungain manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.

ungraceful

• adj. (colloquial, nonstandard) Not graceful; lacking grace.

unmanageable

• adj. Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or…

unwieldy

• adj. (obsolete) Lacking strength; weak.
• adj. (obsolete) Ungraceful in movement.
• adj. Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.
• adj. Badly managed or operated.

wooden

• adj. Made of wood.
• adj. (figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.