Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, a.
Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky;
ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old."
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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: unmanageable] [ant: wieldy]
2: 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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