Related Words:
- 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
- immature
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- lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character"
- not yet mature
- characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior" related words >
- a novice at,
- a stranger to,
- adolescent,
- adulterated,
- amateur,
- amateurish,
- arrested,
- at half cock,
- babish,
- babyish,
- blemished,
- budding,
- callow,
- childish,
- childlike,
- dabbling,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dewy,
- dilettante,
- dilettantish,
- embryonic,
- erroneous,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- failing,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- found wanting,
- fresh,
- green,
- green as grass,
- growing,
- half-assed,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- half-grown,
- hypoplastic,
- ignorant,
- ill-digested,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impubic,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- inexperienced,
- infant,
- infantile,
- infantine,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- intact,
- jejune,
- juicy,
- juvenile,
- lacking,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- minor,
- missing,
- mixed,
- naive,
- needing,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- new to,
- new-fledged,
- not perfect,
- off,
- original,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- precocious,
- premature,
- pristine,
- puerile,
- raw,
- ripening,
- rudimentary,
- sappy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- sciolistic,
- scrappy,
- sempervirent,
- shallow,
- short,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- smattering,
- sophomoric,
- superficial,
- tender,
- unaccustomed to,
- unacquainted with,
- unadult,
- unbeaten,
- unconversant,
- unconversant with,
- underage,
- underdeveloped,
- underripe,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unexperienced,
- unfamiliar with,
- unfinished,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- ungrown,
- unhandled,
- uninitiated in,
- unlicked,
- unmatured,
- unmellowed,
- unperfected,
- unpracticed,
- unpracticed in,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- unskilled in,
- unsophisticated,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unused to,
- unversed,
- unversed in,
- vernal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- wanting,
- young,
- youthful
- undeveloped
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- not developed; "courses in interior design were rare and undeveloped"; "undeveloped social awareness"
- (of real estate) not built upon or ready for building upon; "taxes on undeveloped lots are low" related words >
- a novice at,
- a stranger to,
- adulterated,
- archaic,
- arrested,
- backward,
- behindhand,
- blemished,
- budding,
- callow,
- coarse,
- crude,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dewy,
- embryonic,
- erroneous,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- failing,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- found wanting,
- fresh,
- green,
- green as grass,
- growing,
- hypoplastic,
- ignorant,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impubic,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in short supply,
- in the rough,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- inchoate,
- incipient,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- inexperienced,
- infant,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- intact,
- juicy,
- lacking,
- latent,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- minor,
- missing,
- mixed,
- naive,
- needing,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- new to,
- new-fledged,
- not perfect,
- off,
- original,
- oversimple,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- persistent,
- potential,
- premature,
- pristine,
- raw,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- ripening,
- rough,
- roughcast,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sappy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrappy,
- sempervirent,
- short,
- shy,
- simplistic,
- sketchy,
- stunted,
- tender,
- unaccustomed to,
- unacquainted with,
- unadult,
- unbeaten,
- unblown,
- unconversant,
- unconversant with,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- underage,
- underdeveloped,
- uneven,
- unexperienced,
- unfamiliar with,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- unhandled,
- unhewn,
- uninitiated in,
- unlabored,
- unlicked,
- unmatured,
- unmellowed,
- unperfected,
- unpolished,
- unpracticed,
- unpracticed in,
- unprocessed,
- unprogressive,
- unrefined,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- unskilled in,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- untouched,
- untreated,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unused to,
- unversed,
- unversed in,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- vernal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- wanting,
- young
- unpolished
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- not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes" related words >
- Doric,
- Gothic,
- Neanderthal,
- amateurish,
- animal,
- arrested,
- backward,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- bestial,
- boorish,
- broken,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- bumpy,
- cacophonous,
- choppy,
- churlish,
- cloddish,
- clodhopping,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- corrugated,
- countrified,
- country-born,
- country-bred,
- cross-grained,
- crude,
- discourteous,
- disrespectful,
- doggerel,
- dysphemistic,
- embryonic,
- farmerish,
- from the sticks,
- graceless,
- grainy,
- granulated,
- gross,
- harsh,
- hayseed,
- hick,
- hicky,
- hobnailed,
- homespun,
- horripilant,
- ill-bred,
- ill-mannered,
- impolite,
- improper,
- impure,
- in bad taste,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in the rough,
- inconcinnate,
- inconcinnous,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- inelegant,
- inequal,
- infelicitous,
- inurbane,
- irregular,
- jolty,
- linsey-woolsey,
- loutish,
- low,
- lowbred,
- lumpen,
- lumpish,
- noncivilized,
- outlandish,
- oversimple,
- pimply,
- pitted,
- pocky,
- potholed,
- primitive,
- rank,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- ripply,
- rough,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- roughcast,
- roughhewn,
- rube,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- ruffled,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- savage,
- semiskilled,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- simplistic,
- stunted,
- tasteless,
- textured,
- troglodytic,
- unaccomplished,
- unblown,
- unbusinesslike,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncoached,
- uncombed,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- undignified,
- undressed,
- unendowed,
- uneuphonious,
- uneven,
- unfashioned,
- unfelicitous,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- ungifted,
- ungraceful,
- ungracious,
- unhewn,
- uninitiated,
- unkempt,
- unlabored,
- unlevel,
- unlicked,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unprocessed,
- unprofessional,
- unrefined,
- unschooled,
- unseemly,
- unskilled,
- unsmooth,
- untalented,
- untamed,
- untaught,
- untrained,
- untreated,
- untutored,
- ununiform,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- up-country,
- vulgar,
- wild,
- wimpled,
- yokel,
- yokelish
- unripe
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- not fully prepared related words >
- a bit previous,
- a novice at,
- a stranger to,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acescent,
- adolescent,
- advanced,
- at half cock,
- awkward,
- blankminded,
- budding,
- callow,
- crab,
- crabbed,
- dewy,
- dry,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- far ahead,
- fledgling,
- forward,
- fresh,
- gauche,
- green,
- green as grass,
- groping,
- growing,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- half-grown,
- hasty,
- ignorant,
- ill-considered,
- ill-digested,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-timed,
- immature,
- improper,
- impubic,
- impulsive,
- inane,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- inexperienced,
- infant,
- infelicitous,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- inopportune,
- intact,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- juicy,
- juvenile,
- know-nothing,
- late,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- minor,
- mistimed,
- naive,
- nescient,
- new to,
- new-fledged,
- not firm,
- off base,
- out of line,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- pickled,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- premature,
- previous,
- pungent,
- raw,
- ripening,
- rushed,
- sappy,
- sec,
- simple,
- sour,
- sour as vinegar,
- soured,
- sourish,
- strange to,
- tart,
- tartish,
- tender,
- tentative,
- too early,
- too late,
- too soon,
- unaccustomed to,
- unacquainted,
- unacquainted with,
- unadult,
- unapprized,
- unbefitting,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- unconversant with,
- uncrystallized,
- underage,
- underripe,
- undeveloped,
- unenlightened,
- unexperienced,
- unfamiliar,
- unfamiliar with,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- unfortunate,
- ungrown,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- uninitiated in,
- unintelligent,
- unjelled,
- unknowing,
- unlicked,
- unlucky,
- unmatured,
- unmeditated,
- unmellowed,
- unposted,
- unpracticed,
- unpracticed in,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unpropitious,
- unready,
- unseasonable,
- unseasoned,
- unskilled in,
- unsuitable,
- unsure,
- unsweet,
- unsweetened,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- untried,
- unused to,
- unversed,
- unversed in,
- vacuous,
- vernal,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- virginal,
- wrong,
- youthful
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