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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment;
- Example: "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"
- Example: "an awkward pause followed his remark"
- Example: "a sticky question"
- Example: "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
[syn: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable]

2. so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy;
- Example: "unenviable notoriety"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unenviable \Unenviable\
   See enviable.


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unenviable
    adj 1: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or
           embarrassment; "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" [syn: awkward,
           embarrassing, sticky, unenviable]
    2: so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy;
       "unenviable notoriety"