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- awkward
collapse - not at ease socially; 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"
- causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
- 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"
- 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?"
- 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"
- 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" related words >
- Latinate,
- all thumbs,
- blankminded,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- callow,
- careless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- confused,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- crushing,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- discomfited,
- discommodious,
- disconcerted,
- disconcerting,
- disturbing,
- dumb,
- elephantine,
- embarrassed,
- embarrassing,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fingers all thumbs,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- green,
- groping,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- hazardous,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- humiliating,
- ignorant,
- ill at ease,
- ill-chosen,
- impractical,
- inane,
- incommodious,
- inconvenient,
- inefficient,
- inelegant,
- inept,
- inexperienced,
- inexpert,
- inkhorn,
- innocent,
- know-nothing,
- labored,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- mortifying,
- naive,
- nescient,
- oafish,
- out of place,
- perilous,
- perverse,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- precarious,
- raw,
- rigid,
- risky,
- sensitive,
- sesquipedalian,
- shamefaced,
- simple,
- sloppy,
- splay,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- turgid,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomfortable,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- uncouth,
- undexterous,
- uneasy,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unfortunate,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unmanageable,
- unpleasant,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- unsure,
- unversed,
- unwieldy,
- vacuous,
- wooden
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
- tall
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- a garment size for a tall person
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- a mile long,
- absurd,
- affected,
- altitudinous,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- considerable,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- healthy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- huge,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- labyrinthine,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- large-scale,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- man-sized,
- meretricious,
- no end of,
- not deserving belief,
- numerous,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing belief,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- rangy,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sizable,
- sky-high,
- skyscraping,
- soaring,
- sonorous,
- staggering belief,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- swollen,
- thick,
- thin,
- tidy,
- tortuous,
- towering,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- windy,
- without end
- scholastic
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- a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
- of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy" related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- abstruse,
- academic,
- academician,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- bookman,
- booky,
- canonist,
- civilized,
- classicist,
- classroom,
- clerk,
- collegiate,
- colossus of knowledge,
- conversant,
- cosmotheistic,
- cross-disciplinary,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- divine,
- divinity student,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- eclectic,
- educated,
- empirical,
- encyclopedic,
- erudite,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- extramural,
- formal,
- genius,
- giant of learning,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealistic,
- inkhorn,
- instrumentalist,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- learned,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- lettered,
- literary,
- literary man,
- literate,
- litterateur,
- lover of learning,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- mandarin,
- mastermind,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- metaphysical,
- mine of information,
- monistic,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- owlish,
- panlogistical,
- pansophic,
- pantheistic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- polyhistor,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- postgraduate,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- profound,
- pundit,
- rabbinic,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholarly,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolman,
- sensationalistic,
- student,
- studious,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- theologian,
- theological,
- theologician,
- theologist,
- theologizer,
- theologue,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- university,
- utilitarian,
- versed,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- walking encyclopedia,
- wise
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- achingly sweet,
- affected,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- booming,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- clangorous,
- clattery,
- consonant,
- convoluted,
- deafening,
- declamatory,
- droning,
- dulcet,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- euphuistic,
- fine-toned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- full,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honeyed,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- meretricious,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- noiseful,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pealing,
- pedantic,
- piercing,
- plangent,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pulsing,
- rackety,
- resonant,
- resonating,
- resounding,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- ringing,
- rolling,
- rotund,
- round,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- songful,
- songlike,
- soniferous,
- sounded,
- sounding,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stilted,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- tall,
- throbbing,
- thunderous,
- tonal,
- toneless,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tortuous,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- uproarious,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- window-rattling
- lumbering
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- the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber related words >
- Christmas tree farming,
- Latinate,
- afforestation,
- all thumbs,
- ambling,
- ambulation,
- arboriculture,
- awkward,
- backpacking,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- careless,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- cramped,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- deliberate,
- easy,
- elephantine,
- faltering,
- fingers all thumbs,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- footing,
- footing it,
- footwork,
- forced,
- forest management,
- forestation,
- forestry,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- gentle,
- going on foot,
- graceless,
- gradual,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hiking,
- hitchhiking,
- hitching,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hoofing,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- idle,
- indolent,
- inelegant,
- inept,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- legwork,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- logging,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- marching,
- massive,
- massy,
- moderate,
- oafish,
- pedestrianism,
- perambulation,
- poking,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- reforestation,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- sesquipedalian,
- shuffling,
- silviculture,
- slack,
- sloppy,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- splay,
- staggering,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- thumbing,
- thumbing a ride,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- tramping,
- treading,
- tree farming,
- trudging,
- turgid,
- turtlelike,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unhurried,
- unwieldy,
- waddling,
- walking,
- woodcraft,
- wooden
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- academic,
- accordant,
- affected,
- anal,
- arid,
- bedizened,
- bibliophagic,
- big-sounding,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convoluted,
- corresponding,
- declamatory,
- devoted to studies,
- didactic,
- diligent,
- doctrinaire,
- donnish,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- erudite,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- hair-splitting,
- harmonious,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inkhorn,
- kosher,
- labyrinthine,
- learned,
- legalistic,
- lexiphanic,
- literary,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mandarin,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- orotund,
- orthodox,
- ostentatious,
- outward,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantical,
- perfectionist,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- preceptorial,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- quibbling,
- rabbinic,
- rhetorical,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- scrupulous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- simpering,
- sonorous,
- square,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- straight,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
- cramped
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- constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments" related words >
- Latinate,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- authoritarian,
- awkward,
- barred,
- beleaguered,
- beset,
- besieged,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- blockaded,
- bombastic,
- borne,
- bound,
- bounded,
- boxed in,
- cabined,
- caged,
- circumscribed,
- clamped,
- cloistered,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- closed,
- closed-in,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cooped,
- copyrighted,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corralled,
- cramp,
- creedbound,
- cribbed,
- crowded,
- cumbrous,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- dinky,
- disciplined,
- elephantine,
- enclosed,
- exiguous,
- fanatical,
- fenced,
- finite,
- forced,
- formal,
- guinde,
- half-pint,
- halting,
- heavy,
- hedged,
- hedged about,
- hedged in,
- hemmed,
- hemmed in,
- hidebound,
- icebound,
- illiberal,
- immured,
- imprisoned,
- incapacious,
- incarcerated,
- incommodious,
- inkhorn,
- insular,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jailed,
- knee-high,
- knitted,
- labored,
- landlocked,
- leaden,
- leaguered,
- limited,
- little,
- little-minded,
- lumbering,
- meager,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mewed,
- minute,
- moderated,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- near,
- nearsighted,
- nipped,
- one-horse,
- paled,
- parochial,
- patented,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- petite,
- petty,
- piddling,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- prescribed,
- proscribed,
- provincial,
- puckered,
- puny,
- purblind,
- pursed,
- qualified,
- quarantined,
- railed,
- restrained,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scanty,
- sesquipedalian,
- short,
- shortsighted,
- shut-in,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smallish,
- snowbound,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straitened,
- straitlaced,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- stuffy,
- tight,
- tiny,
- turgid,
- two-by-four,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncomfortable,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unwieldy,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wasp-waisted,
- windbound,
- wrinkled,
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