Awkward vs Silly - What's the difference?
awkward | silly |
(obsolete) In a backwards direction.
*, Bk.V, Ch.x:
Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments
Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing
Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction
Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle
(label) Pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
(label) Simple, unsophisticated, ordinary; rustic, ignorant.
* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom; frivolous, trifling.
Irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.
Semiconscious, witless.
(label) Of a fielding position, very close to the batsman; closer than short.
Simple, not intelligent, unrefined.
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(label) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
(label) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(colloquial) A silly person; a fool.
(colloquial) A mistake.
As adjectives the difference between awkward and silly
is that awkward is lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments while silly is (label) pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.As an adverb awkward
is (obsolete) in a backwards direction.As a noun silly is
(colloquial) a silly person; a fool.awkward
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Than groned the knyght for his grymme woundis, and gyrdis to Sir Gawayne and awkewarde hym strykes, and.
Adjective
(en-adj)- John was awkward at performing the trick. He'll have to practice to improve.
- That was an extremely awkward moment. Everyone was watching.
- An awkward silence had fallen.
- I'm very awkward at parties.
- Things get very awkward whenever 60-year old men use cheesy pick-up lines on me.
- He's a right awkward chap.
- These cabinets are going to be very awkward when we move.
Synonyms
* (lacking dexterity) clumsy, ungraceful, unhandy, lubberly * (lacking social skill) maladroitAntonyms
* (having dexterity) dexterous, graceful, skillful, gainly * (having social skills) cool, amiableDerived terms
* awkwardly * awkwardnesssilly
English
Adjective
(er)- A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, / And soild with dust of the long dried way; / His sandales were with toilesome trauell torne, / And face all tand with scorching sunny ray
- After long storms with which my silly bark was tossed sore.
- The silly buckets on the deck.
- For, if we justly call each silly man'' / A ''little island , What shall we call thee than?
- A fourth man, in a silly habit.
- All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
George Goodchild
- (Chaucer)
- The silly virgin strove him to withstand.
- A silly , innocent hare murdered of a dog.