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Awkwardness vs Gangly - What's the difference?

awkwardness | gangly |

As a noun awkwardness

is the state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.

As an adjective gangly is

tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.

awkwardness

English

Alternative forms

* aukwardness (obsolete)

Noun

(es)
  • The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
  • The quality of an embarrassing situation.
  • Synonyms

    * clunkiness * clumsiness * ineptness, ineptitude * inelegance

    gangly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
  • * 1872 , , chapter VII
  • I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people—but of course I couldn't
  • * 1917 , , chapter XV
  • A rangy, gangly , Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes of palest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.
  • * 2007 , Oswald J. Schmitz, Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation? , page 34
  • Individuals of this rabbit species tend to be very large (about the size of a beagle dog); they have long ears and long, gangly legs and a very thin fur coats.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=[Peter Crouch] The gangly striker played a one-two with Jermaine Pennant as the winger cut in from the right, and although Pennant easily jinked past centre-half Brede Hangeland, he shot narrowly wide of the far post.}}

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