Awkwardnessful

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of awkwardness. nonstandard, rare

    "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”."

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"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”."

Etymology

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

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