[ˈɔːkwəd], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with
(e.g: some awkward questions)

- causing or feeling uneasy embarrassment or inconvenience
(e.g: you have put me in a very awkward position)

- not smooth or graceful; ungainly
(e.g: Luther's awkward movements impeded his progress)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘the wrong way round, upside down’): from dialect awk ‘backwards, perverse, clumsy’ (from Old Norse afugr ‘turned the wrong way’) + -ward