awkwardness

Other forms of awkwardness

plural

awkwardnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about awkwardness

What does awkwardness mean?

awkwardness means "unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in awkwardness?

awkwardness has 3 syllables: aw-kward-ness. The stress falls on "aw". In IPA it is /ˈɔkwɚdnəs/.

What is another word for awkwardness?

Close synonyms include clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of awkwardness?

The recorded antonyms are gracefulness.

Is awkwardness a common word?

awkwardness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.