Usually means: Causing embarrassment or discomfort socially.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. awkward: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. awkward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. awkward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. awkward: Collins English Dictionary
  5. awkward: Vocabulary.com
  6. Awkward, awkward: Wordnik
  7. awkward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. awkward: Wiktionary
  9. awkward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. awkward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. awkward: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Awkward, awkward: Dictionary.com
  13. awkward: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. awkward: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Awkward (TV series), Awkward (album), Awkward (disambiguation), Awkward (graphic novel), Awkward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Awkward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. awkward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. awkward: Rhymezone
  19. awkward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. awkward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Awkward: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. awkward: Free Dictionary
  23. awkward: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. awkward: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. awkward: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. awkward: Legal dictionary

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  1. awkward: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. awkward: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. awkward: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See awkwardly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (obsolete) In a backwards direction.
adjective:  Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
adjective:  Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
adjective:  Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
adjective:  Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
noun:  Someone or something that is awkward.

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