Search Result for "unwieldy":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape;
- Example: "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"
- Example: "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"
[syn: unwieldy, unmanageable]
2. difficult to work or manipulate;
- Example: "unwieldy rules and regulations"
3. lacking grace in movement or posture;
- Example: "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"
- Example: "clumsy fingers"
- Example: "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"
- Example: "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
[syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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] -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n. [1913 Webster]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
