Unwieldy

Quick meaning: Unwieldy is an adjective meaning Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.

Meaning

Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.

More Meanings

1. Badly managed or operated.
2. (obsolete) Lacking strength; weak.
3. (obsolete) Ungraceful in movement.

Example Sentences

Recorded music came in unwieldy packages and odd shapes.

The railways that would be fused to create the unwieldy Northern Line were the City & South London and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, known as the 'Hampstead Tube'.

She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels.

However, the constellation of Argo Navis was so huge and unwieldy that in the 1932 revision, the International Astronomical Union committee chopped it up into a keel (Carina), a poop (Puppis) and sails (Vela).

Word Forms

• unwieldier
• unwieldiest
• unwieldly

Synonyms for unwieldy

Depending on context, synonyms include unmanageable, unwieldsome, cumbersome, cumbrous, gawky, awkward.

Antonyms for unwieldy

Common opposites include wieldy, manageable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ungainly, clunky, clumsy, gawky, bunglesome, unmanageable.

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