Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult to carry or manage because of size, shape, weight, or complexity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Movable or moving with difficulty; unmanageable from size, shape, or weight; lacking pliability: as, an unwieldy hulk; an unwieldy rock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
lacking strength ;weak - adjective obsolete
ungraceful in movement - adjective
difficult tocarry ,handle ,manage oroperate because of itssize ,weight ,shape orcomplexity - adjective badly managed or operated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective difficult to work or manipulate
- adjective difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
- adjective lacking grace in movement or posture
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Compare that with the approach of the Federal Communications Commission, which allows only limited searching of filings and comments; or that of the Department of Justice, which puts out data on foreign lobbying in unwieldy PDF format and binders.)
iGov 2009
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(Compare that with the approach of the Federal Communications Commission, which allows only limited searching of filings and comments; or that of the Department of Justice, which puts out data on foreign lobbying in unwieldy PDF format and binders.)
iGov 2009
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I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.
Walking 1969
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I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.
Walking 1862
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The title is unwieldy, but the book—set in present-day Guyana—is a deft synthesis of travelogue and Bildungsroman, by turns antic and introspective.
Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665) Sam Sacks 2011
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Fans of the original surely recall the unwieldy and annoying mini-game that was more enjoyable if you had auto-hack tools or just bought them out with Ryanbucks.
Gaming Target 2010
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Then came the idea of the ‘post-bureaucratic age’ — in itself the kind of unwieldy phrase you might expect a bureaucrat to use.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Then came the idea of the ‘post-bureaucratic age’ — in itself the kind of unwieldy phrase you might expect a bureaucrat to use.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Eugenie Allen says Leslie "doesn't do this loaded issue justice, '' because she" uses a battering ram '' to make her points, and so The Feminine Mistake is "unwieldy" and "polarizing."
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There is something thoroughly modernist about Burtynsky's work, the grand scale, the glorious detail, a kind of unwieldy whole.
Archive 2006-09-01 Lemon Hound 2006
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