| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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| (adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
| seaward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: offshore |
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| (adjective) directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast | - |
| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| wayward | (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, perverse |
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| westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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| windward | (adjective) on the side exposed to the wind | - |
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