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Unwieldy

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking strength; weak. obsolete
  2. 2
    Ungraceful in movement. obsolete
  3. 3
    Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.

    "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."

  4. 4
    Badly managed or operated.
Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking grace in movement or posture wordnet
  2. 2
    difficult to work or manipulate wordnet
  3. 3
    difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English unweldy, equivalent to un- + wieldy. Cognate with Old Frisian unweldich, unweldech (“having no power, involuntary”), Middle Dutch onweldich (“having no control or mastery over”), Middle Low German unweldich (“unwieldy”). Compare also Old High German unwaltīg (“powerless”), whence Middle High German unwaltic, German ungewaltig (“powerless, unmighty”).

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