UNWIELDY - 10 definitions found
unwieldy adj 1: difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel" [syn: unwieldy, unmanageable] [ant: wieldy] 2: difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations" 3: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) unwieldy adjective Date: 1530 not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) ; cumbersome • unwieldily adverb • unwieldiness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary unwieldy 1. If you describe an object as unwieldy, you mean that it is difficult to move or carry because it is so big or heavy. They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage. = awkward ADJ 2. If you describe a system as unwieldy, you mean that it does not work very well as a result of it being too large or badly organized. His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy. ...an unwieldy legal system. = cumbersome ADJ English Explanatory Dictionary unwieldy ʌnˈwi:ldɪ adj. (unwieldier, unwieldiest) cumbersome, clumsy, or hard to manage, owing to size, shape, or weight. øøunwieldily adv. unwieldiness n. [ME f. UN-(1) + wieldy active (now dial.) f. WIELD] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, a. Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. ``A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old.'' --Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms unwieldy a. Unmanageable (from size or weight), ponderous, bulky, weighty, heavy, clumsy, large. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) unwieldy ʌnˈwi:ldɪ adj. awkward, clumsy, bulky, oversized, cumbersome, ungainly, unmanageable, unhandy, unmanoeuvrable: The huge oil tankers, though economical, often proved unwieldy in the ports they visited. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 78 Moby Thesaurus words for "unwieldy": Latinate, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contrary, cramped, crosswise, cumbersome, cumbrous, discommodious, elephantine, encumbering, fingers all thumbs, forced, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, guinde, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, impractical, incommodious, inconvenient, incumbent, inelegant, inkhorn, labored, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, onerous, oppressive, oversized, perverse, pompous, ponderous, sesquipedalian, sloppy, stiff, stilted, superincumbent, troublesome, turgid, uncontrollable, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unmanageable |
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