Unwieldy
[ʌn'wiːldɪ] or [ʌn'wildi]
Definition
(adj.) difficult to work or manipulate; 'unwieldy rules and regulations' .
(adj.) 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' .
Editor: Percival--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
Checked by Angelique
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unmanageable (from size or weight), ponderous, bulky, weighty, heavy, clumsy.
Typed by Greta
Definition
adj. not easily moved or handled.—adv. Unwiel′dily.—n. Unwiel′diness the state or quality of being unwieldy: difficulty of being moved.
Typist: Norton
Examples
- It seemed as if Misfortune was never tired of worrying into motion that unwieldy exile. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is an ugly pistol, small in the round handle, large and flat in the barrel, and unwieldy. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Especially was this the case with out of door work, which heretofore had involved the carrying along of much unwieldy and inconvenient paraphernalia. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This mammoth vessel was too large and unwieldy for the uses for which she was designed, and proved a bad investment. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Trick machines of unwieldy strength were built secretly, and reapers were driven into growths of young trees, and were fastened together and then pulled apart to prove which was the stronger. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then, before it becomes unwieldy, its growth declines and stops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the heavy, unwieldy bombards with stone balls were used, artillery was mostly confined to castles, towns, forts, and ships. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Norton