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Definition: Awkwardly |
AwkwardlyAdverb1. In an awkward manner; "he bent awkwardly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awkwardly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: Awkwardly |
| English words defined with "awkwardly": Awkly ♦ bumpkinly, Bunglingly ♦ clamber ♦ flounder ♦ hick ♦ In a box ♦ Loobily ♦ rustic ♦ Scamble, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, Squail, struggle ♦ unsophisticated ♦ Wammel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "awkwardly": BEDIZENED ♦ DUEL ♦ FUMBLER ♦ TO SHAMBLE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "awkwardly": Squail. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The boys who had been painted walked about or stood still awkwardly, touching their faces in a gingerly fashion with their furtive fingertips |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She saw them safely up, sitting awkwardly beside Rose of Sharon |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As these individuals walk, their legs move awkwardly and stiffly and nearly touch at the knees. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel. That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now -- a mighty throng. It looks as if to challenge me they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners! Xamba Q. Dar |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Awkwardly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Awkwardly" is used about 383 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 383 | 14,369 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "awkwardly": awkwardly placed ♦ awkwardly shaped. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "awkwardly": awkwardly-named, awkwardly-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "awkwardly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غير ملائم (awkward, clumsy, disadvantageous, inadequate, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurate, inconvenient, inept, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhandy, unseemly, unsuitable, untidy, untimely), على نحو مربك, على نحو أخرق. (various references) | |
Chinese | 笨拙地 (Clumsily). (various references) | |
Danish | uhåndterlig (awkward, awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy). (various references) | |
Dutch | lastig (difficult, hard, hardly, inconvenient, nasty, not easily, troublesome, with difficulty), hinderlijk (troublesome). (various references) | |
Finnish | hankalakäyttöinen (awkward, awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy). (various references) | |
French | malhabillement, maladroitement, d'un ton embarrassé. (various references) | |
German | ungeschickte (unskillfully). (various references) | |
Greek | αδέξια (inexpertly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügyetlenül (lubberly, to misplace, ungracefully, woodenly). (various references) | |
Italian | voluminoso (bulky, heavyset, voluminous), ingombrante (bulky, cumbersome, unwieldy). (various references) | |
Korean | 서두르게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awkwardlyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estorvar (abash, embarrass, entangle, inconvenience, interrupt, lumber, obstruct, shackle). (various references) | |
Romanian | stângaci (artless, awkward, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), neîndemânatic (awkward, buckram, butter fingers, butter-fingered, clumsily, clumsy, fumbling, gawky, inapt, left handed, lubberly, maladroit, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, unversed). (various references) | |
Russian | неуклюже (lubberly, lumbering). (various references) | |
Scottish | sp galais (nf.ind. walking awkwardly), sp gach (walking awkwardly). (various references) | |
Spanish | embarazosamente. (various references) | |
Swedish | svårhanterlig (unmanageable), opraktiskt utformad (awkward, awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cumbersome, unwieldy), klumpig (awkward, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references) | |
Turkish | sakarca (clumsyly), beceriksizce (clumsyly, lubberly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скрутно (onerously), важко (arduously, grievously, hard, weightily), незручно (uneasily), незграбно (angularly, artlessly, heavily, lefthandedly, lubberly, splay, ungainly), недоладно (fussily, off-key). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vụng về lúng túng (awkward), ngượng nghịu khó xử. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | laeve leve. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Awkwardly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awkardly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "awkwardly" (pronounced Ä"kwerdlē) |
| 5 | -w er d l ē | downwardly, inwardly, outwardly, straightforwardly, upwardly. |
| 4 | -er d l ē | cowardly, dastardly, haphazardly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, badly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, crudely, cuddly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, kindly, doggedly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-k-l-r-w-w-y" | |
-2 letters: awkward, walkway, wayward. | |
-3 letters: darkly, drawly. | |
-4 letters: alary, alkyd, alway, award, drawl, kraal, lardy, larky, lyard, rawly. | |
-5 letters: alar, alky, arak, aryl, away, awry, dark, dawk, draw, dray, kyar, lady, laky, lard, lark, raya, wady, walk, waly, ward, wark, wary, wawl, yald, yard, yawl. | |
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