Meanings
comparative more awkwardnessful · superlative most awkwardnessful
- 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 20–21Please 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.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
awkwardnessful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awkwardnessful
“awkwardnessful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awkwardnessful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awkwardnessful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awkwardnessful.
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