unwieldy
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- Words With Friends
- 17
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- 8
Definition of unwieldy
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- (obsolete)Lacking strength; weak.
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adj
- (obsolete)Lacking strength; weak.
- (obsolete)Ungraceful in movement.
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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.”
“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).”
“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'.”
“Recorded music came in unwieldy packages and odd shapes.”
- Badly managed or operated.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
Words you can make from unwieldy
114 playable · top: DEWILY (13 pts)
Best play dewily 13 points6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
18 words4-letter words
44 words- DEWY 11 pts
- WYND 11 pts
- WILY 10 pts
- WINY 10 pts
- WYLE 10 pts
- DENY 8 pts
- DULY 8 pts
- DYNE 8 pts
- IDLY 8 pts
- IDYL 8 pts
- LEWD 8 pts
- UNDY 8 pts
- WELD 8 pts
- WEND 8 pts
- WIDE 8 pts
- WILD 8 pts
- WIND 8 pts
- YELD 8 pts
- INLY 7 pts
- LINY 7 pts
- LUNY 7 pts
- LWEI 7 pts
- WILE 7 pts
- WINE 7 pts
- YULE 7 pts
- DEIL 5 pts
- DELI 5 pts
- DENI 5 pts
- DIEL 5 pts
- DINE 5 pts
- DUEL 5 pts
- DUNE 5 pts
- IDLE 5 pts
- LEND 5 pts
- LEUD 5 pts
- LIED 5 pts
- LUDE 5 pts
- NIDE 5 pts
- NUDE 5 pts
- UNDE 5 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LIEU 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LUNE 4 pts
3-letter words
34 words- WYE 9 pts
- WYN 9 pts
- YEW 9 pts
- DEW 7 pts
- DEY 7 pts
- DYE 7 pts
- WED 7 pts
- WUD 7 pts
- LEY 6 pts
- LYE 6 pts
- NEW 6 pts
- WEN 6 pts
- WIN 6 pts
- YEN 6 pts
- YIN 6 pts
- DEL 4 pts
- DEN 4 pts
- DIE 4 pts
- DIN 4 pts
- DUE 4 pts
- DUI 4 pts
- DUN 4 pts
- ELD 4 pts
- END 4 pts
- LED 4 pts
- LID 4 pts
- LUD 4 pts
- LEI 3 pts
- LEU 3 pts
- LIE 3 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- UNI 3 pts
2-letter words
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