What is the meaning of awkward?

adjective

• Causing inconvenience.
  • usage: "they arrived at an awkward time"
• Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance.
  • usage: "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
• Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
  • usage: "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
  • synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly
• Not elegant or graceful in expression.
  • usage: "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now"
  • synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen
• Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment.
  • usage: "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
  • synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable
• Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner.
  • usage: "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
  • synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy