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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
awkwardness
1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training • Syn: clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness • Derivationally related forms: slow (for: slowness), maladroit (for: maladroitness), inept (for: ineptness), clumsy (for: clumsiness), awkward • Hypernyms: unskillfulness • Hyponyms: rustiness 2. the quality of an embarrassing situation - he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal • Syn: nuisance value • Derivationally related forms: awkward • Hypernyms: disadvantage 3. the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant • Syn: clumsiness • Ant: gracefulness • Derivationally related forms: clumsy (for: clumsiness) • Hypernyms: carriage, bearing, posture • Hyponyms: gracelessness, ungracefulness, gawkiness, ungainliness, stiffness 4. the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) • Syn: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness • Derivationally related forms: stiff (for: stiffness), graceless (for: gracelessness), clumsy (for: clumsiness), awkward • Hypernyms: inelegance • Hyponyms: woodenness, rusticity, gaucherie 5. trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape - the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano • Syn: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness • Derivationally related forms: unwieldy (for: unwieldiness), cumbersome (for: cumbersomeness), awkward • Hypernyms: troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
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