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awkwardnessful

awkwardnessful adjective: full of awkwardness.

Adjective

awkwardnessful (comparative more awkwardnessful, superlative most awkwardnessful)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Full of awkwardness.
    • 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”.[1979, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 20–21
    • Please have some consideration for non-natives' awkwardnessful sentences.1992 November 7, “The Democrats and Me”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet)

Forms of awkwardnessful

comparativemore awkwardnessful
superlativemost awkwardnessful

Origin of awkwardnessful

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

Questions about awkwardnessful

What does awkwardnessful mean?
Awkwardnessful means full of awkwardness.
What part of speech is awkwardnessful?
Awkwardnessful is an adjective.

Words near awkwardnessful in the dictionary

  1. awkwardish
  2. awkwardity
  3. awkwardly
  4. awkwardness
  5. awkwardnesses
  6. awkwardnessful
  7. awkwards
  8. awkweird
  9. awky
  10. awl
  11. awl-flies

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