Clamber vs Awkward - What's the difference?
clamber | awkward |
To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
* Tennyson
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 22. p. 220.
*:And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.
(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
As a verb clamber
is to climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.As a noun clamber
is the act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.As an adverb awkward is
(obsolete) in a backwards direction.As an adjective awkward is
lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.clamber
English
Verb
(en verb)- The children clambered over the jungle gym with reckless abandon.
- The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
- Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through and through, and little better than a rotten shell. So it was that I had some ado to get over it, not daring either to kneel upon it or to bring much weight to bear with my hand, lest it should go through.
- He would clamber about the roof and windows for hours attempting to discover means of ingress, but to the door he paid little attention, for this was apparently as solid as the walls.
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.