awkwardnessful

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adjective

Full of awkwardness.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

adjectiveawkwardnessful (comparative more awkwardnessful, superlative most awkwardnessful)

comparative more awkwardnessful · superlative most awkwardnessful

  1. nonstandardrareFull of awkwardness.

    I think it's very awkwardnessful.

    2001 February 2, “CHAT: Restructuring vs. Restructuralization”, in Czechlist (Usenet)
    3 more examples

    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”.

    [1979, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 20–21

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

    1992 November 7, “The Democrats and Me”, in bit.listserv.words-l (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.

    2001 May 15, “Arrays and databases”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet)

Origin

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

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Cite this entry
APA

awkwardnessful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awkwardnessful

MLA

“awkwardnessful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awkwardnessful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awkwardnessful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awkwardnessful.

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