Talk:awkward
Add topicI sometimes find that this word is hard to spell. Thank goodness for Microsoft Word. Possibilities of spellings include: ackward, aquard, and akward. -24.23.147.216 03:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I personally can't see anyone using the words "awkwarder" and "awkwardest". This is an example of bad, lazy English; should these be removed? — This comment was unsigned.
- Personal knowledge is not determinitive of the content of our entries. When you write your book, you might wish not to use those words, but the authors of more than a hundred published books use "awkwarder". We don't say that usage is wrong. I'm sure you can find a book that will agree with you that it is wrong. DCDuring TALK 10:49, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
What about "awkwards"? AmericanLeMans (talk) 20:00, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
missing sense?
[edit]"awkward-sounding" — sense 2 seems closest but is lacking (awkward-sounding has no embarrassment) —umbreon126 00:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Awkward to sth.
[edit]Meaning something like averse, or perhaps ill-disposed, I would say. Multiple Mooses (talk) 16:31, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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English. Only quotation given is in Middle English. -saph 🍏 17:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
- (It appears that the challenged sense is the adverb one: “In a backwards direction.” — Sgconlaw (talk) 18:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC))
- Failed -enm'ed Father of minus 2 (talk) 22:59, 14 January 2025 (UTC)