Synonyms for Unwieldy

Synonyms for "unwieldy" (106 found)

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Closest matches (22)

all thumbsawkward big blunderheaded blundering bombastic boorish bulky bumbling bungling burdensome butterfingered careless clownish clumsy

Adjective(6 words)

awkward awkwardest bulkierbulkier personbulkybulky package

Noun(1 words)

bulk

Strong matches (31)

Adjective(8 words)

clumsy clunkier clunkiest clunky complicated cumbersome gawkiest gawky

clumsy-fisted contrary cramped crosswise cumbersome cumbrous discommodious elephantine encumberingfingers all thumbsforced formal fumbling gauche gawkish gawky graceless gross guinde halting

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ham-fisted ham-handed heavy

Related words (53)

heavy handedheavy-handed hefty hulking hulky impractical incommodious inconvenient incumbent inelegant inkhorn labored latinate leadenleft handedleft-hand left-handed loutish lubberly lumbering

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Adjective(7 words)

intricate multistep ungainlier ungainliest ungainly unhanded unmanageable

Noun(1 words)

plonking

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

1 entries

adjective

More specific

4 entries

bulky equipmentcomplicated planheavy machinerymulti phase project

Collocations

5 entries

unwieldy designunwieldy equipmentunwieldy loadunwieldy systemunwieldy workload

Inflections

2 entries

more unwieldymost unwieldy

Derivations

2 entries

unwieldily unwieldiness

Antonyms

1 entries

wieldy

similar

7 entries

awkward bunglesome clumsy cumbersome cumbrous impractical ungainly

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Two heaping handfuls of cheese made for a rather unwieldy quesadilla.

Source: tatoeba (910013)

It was too unwieldy for me.

Source: tatoeba (6583743)

After 10 years of patchwork development, the software had become so slow and unwieldy that it had to be rebuilt from scratch.

Source: tatoeba (10660678)

The vacuum cleaner is a bit unwieldy.

Source: tatoeba (12399400)

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Unwieldy