unwieldy
unwieldy
Definition
un·wieldy (-wēl′dē)
adjective
- hard to wield, manage, handle, or deal with, as because of large size or weight, or awkward form
- Now Rare awkward; clumsy
un·wield′i·ness noun
unwieldy
Synonyms
unwieldy
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: This, in turn, has made scope unwieldy at best.
Infinitive complement
- use: The pike was far too unwieldy to use in close combat Type or group of weapons - Polearm - A group of pole-mounted weapons.
- run: It can be unwieldy to run with multiple partners ' meetings.
- manage: UNHCR reports that it has capped camp capacity at 20,000 because it feels that camps larger than this will be too unwieldy to manage.
- lift: The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunch and part of the flank.
Modifying Another Word
- somewhat: But mirror sizes up to 16 inches are often used - but then the telescope become heavy and somewhat unwieldy.
- rather: In 1853 the rather unwieldy name was changed to the North London Railroad.
- too: Their systems must not be too unwieldy or prescriptive.
- little: Good to begin with, it has become even better, if a little unwieldy ( growing from 315 pages to 558 ).
- very: Often generalizations can be very unwieldy, containing many clauses in their conditions.
- so: And because that definition is so unwieldy to trot out every time we think of these things, we say " society " .
Used with adjective complement
- become: With larger classes the number of discussion groups could become unwieldy.
- get: I started off doing this by just sending carbon copies to multiple people in my mail program, but this rapidly got unwieldy.
- seem: Hiving off catering and other services did reduce bottom line staff numbers but in other areas BA seems as unwieldy as ever.
Modifies a noun
- title: But Lowe - for all the unwieldy title - goes much further.
- structure: The whole unwieldy structure is sustained by three main procedures each of which seems to me highly dubious.
- name: In 1853 the rather unwieldy name was changed to the North London Railroad.
- mass: The software will complement Datum's existing KnowledgeWorker suite by converting email from an unwieldy mass of data into a legitimate enterprise information resource.
- body: If these insects select only full grown caterpillars, I can scarcely imagine one of the smaller individuals managing these unwieldy bodies.
- bureaucracy: The unwieldy bureaucracy of the LIG program remains a burden to all involved, notwithstanding the accepted need for accountability and quality assurance.
Browse dictionary entries near unwieldy
- unwholesome
- unwept
- unwell
- unwelcome
- unwearied
- unwavering
- unwashed
- unwary
- unwarranted
- unwarlike
- unwilling
- unwillingly
- unwind
- unwind a trade
- unwise
- unwisely
- unwish
- unwitting
- unwittingly
- unwonted
