Meaning of UNWIELDY
| Pronunciation: | | un'weeldee
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- [adj] 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"
- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, clunky, cumbersome, cumbrous, gawky, ungainly, unmanageable |
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| | Antonyms: | | manageable, wieldy | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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