awkwardnessful

English

Etymology

From awkwardness +‎ -ful, possibly coined as an example of a word that is self-descriptive.

Adjective

awkwardnessful (comparative more awkwardnessful, superlative most awkwardnessful)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Full of awkwardness.
   • [1979, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 20–21:

     Divide the adjectives in English into two categories: those which are self-descriptive, such as “pentasyllabic”, “awkwardnessful”, and “recherché”, and those which are not, such as “edible”, “incomplete”, and “bisyllabic”.]

   • 1992 November 7, “The Democrats and Me”, in bit.listserv.words-l‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Please have some consideration for non-natives' awkwardnessful sentences.

   • 2001 February 2, “CHAT: Restructuring vs. Restructuralization”, in Czechlist‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I think it's very awkwardnessful.

   • 2001 May 15, “Arrays and databases”, in comp.lang.tcl‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Right now we have an awkward situation, because the [array startsearch/anymore/nextelement/donesearch] commands are not only awkwardnessful, but also SLOW -- until [foreach x [array names y] {...}] starts thrashing.