Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

awkwardnessful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: awk-ward-ness-ful
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of awkwardness.

Example Sentences

"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”."
"Please have some consideration for non-natives' awkwardnessful sentences."
"I think it's very awkwardnessful."
"Right now we have an awkward situation, because the [array startsearch/anymore/nextelement/donesearch] commands are not only awkwardnessful, but also SLOW -- until [foreach x [array names y] {...}] starts thrashing."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Suffix: awkwardness

Inflected Forms

more awkwardnessful (comparative) most awkwardnessful (superlative)

Questions

What does awkwardnessful mean?: Full of awkwardness.
Where does awkwardnessful come from?: From awkwardness + -ful, possibly coined as an example of a word that is self-descriptive.

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