position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
awkwardness cumbersomeness unwieldiness | trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape, the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano |
awkwardness clumsiness gracelessness stiffness | the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) |
awkwardness clumsiness | the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant |
awkwardness nuisance value | the quality of an embarrassing situation, he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal |
awkwardness clumsiness ineptness ineptitude maladroitness slowness | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training |
situation comedy sitcom | a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life |
situation comedy sitcom | a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life |
site situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings, the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides |
situation position | a condition or position in which you find yourself, the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils, found herself in a very fortunate situation |
situation state of affairs | the general state of things, the combination of circumstances at a given time, the present international situation is dangerous, wondered how such a state of affairs had come about, eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt |
no-win situation | a situation in which a favorable outcome is impossible, you are bound to lose whatever you do |
situation | a complex or critical or unusual difficulty, the dangerous situation developed suddenly, that's quite a situation, no human situation is simple |
awkward ill at ease(p) uneasy | socially uncomfortable, 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 |
awkward | causing inconvenience, they arrived at an awkward time |
awkward embarrassing sticky unenviable | 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 |
awkward clumsy cumbersome inapt inept ill-chosen | 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? |
awkward | 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 |
awkward bunglesome clumsy ungainly | 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 |