Two heaping handfuls of cheese made for a rather unwieldy quesadilla.
Source: tatoeba (910013)
Unwieldy
Synonyms for "unwieldy" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
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Related words (45)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- неудобен adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Catalan
2 entries- farragós adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- immanejable adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 笨重的 adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Czech
2 entries- neohrabaný adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- nešikovný adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Danish
1 entries- uhåndterlig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Dutch
1 entries- log adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Esperanto
4 entries- grandaĉa adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- maloportuna adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- malpraktika adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- misportenda adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Finnish
2 entries- hankala adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- kömpelö adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
French
3 entries- encombrant adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- lourd adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- peu maniable adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
German
4 entries- klobig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- schwerfällig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- sperrig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- unhandlich adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Hungarian
1 entries- ormótlan adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Irish
2 entries- anásta adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- liobarnach adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Italian
2 entries- ingombrante adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- scomodo adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Latin
1 entries- inhabilis adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Manx
4 entries- lheibeidjagh adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- meydlagh adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- neuyesh adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- trome adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Māori
4 entries- pūheki adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- pūhetī adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- pūwheki adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- pūwhetī adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Norwegian
1 entries- tungvinn adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- uhandterlig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- uhåndterlig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- uhandterleg adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- ulagleg adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- schwoafalich adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Polish
1 entries- nieporęczny adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Portuguese
2 entries- imanejável adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- imanuseável adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Russian
2 entries- неподъёмный adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
- неудобный adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Spanish
1 entries- farragoso adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Swedish
1 entries- otymplig adj (difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
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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