awkward
How many syllables in awkward?
There are 2 syllables in the word awkward.How to pronounce awkward:
Synonyms for awkward:
barro
clumsy
compromising
cringe-making
cringeworthy
delicate
difficult
discomfiting
disconcerting
distressing
disturbed
embarrassed
embarrassing
flustered
gauche
gawky
graceless
humiliating
ill at ease
inconvenient
inelegant
inopportune
labored
laboured
maladroit
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Antonyms for awkward:
able
ace
adept
adroit
agile
athletic
beautiful
brisk
capable
charming
clever
competent
consummate
coordinated
couth
crackerjack
dainty
deft
dexterous
dextrous
effective
effectual
efficient
elegant
experienced
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Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- cradling
- gloated
- refreshed
- howled
- creeper
- rejoiced
- fervor
- dawdling
- body
- raveled
- fabric
- blotted
- echoed
- rashly
- quivered
- profess
- etched
- sufficed
- plastered
- traverse
- enmesh
- vagrant
- recedes
- rambled
- scavenged
- couping
- lilies
- innards
- girded
- fortieth
- buries
- vilest
- meddling
- aflame
- ebbed
- freshness
- espied
- rumpled
- rheumy
- cello
- bettered
- explored
- deject
- cocoon
- milky
- statuesque
- bandied
- stifled
- serried
- cowers
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