What is another word for unwieldy?
519 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʌnwˈiːldi], [ ʌnwˈiːldi], [ ʌ_n_w_ˈiː_l_d_i]
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Similar words for unwieldy:
- all (adjective)
- awkward (adjective)
- awkward, bulky (adjective)
- bulky (adjective)
- clumsy (adjective)
- cumbersome (adjective)
- gross (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- hefty (adjective)
- hulky (adjective)
- incommodious (adjective)
- inconvenient (adjective)
- lumbering (adjective)
- massive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- bunglesome (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Unwieldy:
adj.
• all (adjective) • awkward (adjective)- most discommodious,
- un wieldy,
- un wieldier,
- risky,
- un handier,
- un-wieldiest,
- un comfortable,
- un-manageable,
- un-handier,
- un handiest,
- dis commodious,
- un-comfortable,
- un wieldiest,
- un-handy,
- unhandiest,
- un handy,
- dis-commodious,
- un manageable,
- dis agreeable,
- un-wieldy,
- un-wieldier,
- more discommodious,
- un-handiest,
- unhandier,
- dis-agreeable.
- in-experienced,
- in-elegant,
- most untalented,
- more butterfingered,
- in competent,
- helpless,
- most lubberly,
- more blunderous,
- un-dexterous,
- more stumbling,
- more ill shaped,
- more ham-handed,
- un-tactful,
- ham-handed,
- un-easy,
- more ill-shaped,
- most hamhanded,
- un easy,
- un adept,
- un-abler,
- un-talented,
- heavy handed,
- heavyhanded,
- most unadept,
- un dexterous,
- more undexterous,
- most ham handed,
- stumbling,
- in elegant,
- splayer,
- most ham-handed,
- un skillful,
- most butterfingered,
- more unadept,
- more ham handed,
- more untalented,
- most ill shaped,
- most undexterous,
- most illshaped,
- un-couth,
- hamhanded,
- most ill-shaped,
- un-easiest,
- un couth,
- un-easier,
- splayest,
- more illshaped,
- most clownish,
- un-skillful,
- un tactful,
- more lubberly,
- most blunderous,
- un-ablest,
- in experienced,
- un coordinated,
- most gawkish,
- illshaped,
- un-coordinated,
- un-adept,
- un talented,
- more gawkish,
- lumpish,
- un easier,
- ill shaped,
- un abler,
- most blundering,
- more hamhanded,
- in-competent,
- un easiest,
- more clownish,
- oafish,
- in-expert,
- most stumbling,
- uneasy,
- in expert,
- un ablest,
- more blundering,
- ham handed.
- clunkiest,
- more clunking,
- most clunking,
- most clunker,
- more clunker,
- more galumphing,
- most galumphing,
- embarrassing,
- clunkier.
- most discommoding,
- in-convenient,
- un-suitable,
- in-opportune,
- pre-judicial,
- dis advantageous,
- in expedient,
- more discommoding,
- un timely,
- in-expedient,
- in opportune,
- un timeliest,
- un-timeliest,
- pre judicial,
- re-mote,
- un-timely,
- un-timelier,
- in convenient,
- dis-advantageous,
- un seasonable,
- un timelier,
- un-seasonable,
- un suitable.
- cumbrous,
- awkward,
- clumsy,
- Unhandy,
- butterfingered,
- unadept,
- gawkish,
- lubberly,
- clunker,
- all thumbs,
- incommodious,
- blunderous,
- Discommodious,
- untalented,
- hard use,
- clunky,
- ill-shaped,
- hard to use,
- splay,
- heavy,
- ungainly,
- hefty,
- lumbering,
- hulking,
- galumphing,
- bulky,
- undexterous,
- clownish,
- cumbersome.
n.
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•
- critical,
- trying,
- intolerable,
- delicate.
- gruelling,
- ornamental,
- hard-fought,
- deckchair,
- dead loss,
- schlep,
- tiring,
- outlive,
- water,
- good,
- flabby,
- uphill,
- romantic,
- unavailing,
- easy,
- mess,
- begin,
- futile,
- taxing,
- hard-won,
- meaningless,
- challenge,
- sticky,
- aimless,
- weighty,
- work,
- purposeless,
- ineffectual,
- mooch,
- severe,
- motiveless,
- toughen,
- labour-intensive,
- advanced,
- stubborn,
- inane,
- exacting,
- intractable,
- shattering,
- insurmountable,
- high-pressure,
- laboured,
- negate,
- demanding,
- burdensome,
- flaccid,
- exhausting,
- much,
- nothing,
- unsolved,
- formidable,
- herculean,
- laborious,
- blue,
- adrift,
- push,
- moon,
- headless,
- airy-fairy,
- fool's errand,
- jump,
- tricky,
- show,
- idle,
- unresolved,
- production,
- pitiful,
- blood,
- loose,
- irreconcilable,
- backbreaking,
- sensitive,
- blind alley,
- vexed,
- severely,
- unfavourable,
- hot,
- punishing,
- Hell,
- tax,
- problematic,
- the Holy Grail,
- heavy going,
- pointless,
- ineffective,
- window dressing,
- unmanageable,
- Fiendish,
- sensitivity,
- joke,
- rare,
- obstinate,
- directionless,
- awkwardly,
- empty,
- hard going,
- eye candy,
- testing,
- tortured,
- house,
- knotty,
- fiddly,
- expendable,
- good-for-nothing,
- self-defeating,
- moon around,
- obdurate,
- vainly,
- pants,
- inefficient,
- tough,
- insupportable,
- dud,
- quixotic,
- strenuous,
- use,
- nugatory,
- worthless,
- bird,
- devil,
- rigorous,
- ambitious,
- impractical,
- impossible,
- fierce,
- stern,
- thorny,
- door,
- desultory,
- wearing,
- knackering,
- painstaking,
- devilish,
- mug,
- fruitless,
- elephantine,
- picnic,
- murder,
- murky,
- otiose,
- useless,
- wearying,
- ticklish,
- shag,
- job,
- touchy,
- shitty,
- difficult,
- pathetic,
- arduous,
- frivolous,
- killing,
- feeble,
- ponderous,
- inexpedient,
- insoluble,
- past,
- vain,
- Fatiguing,
- shuffle,
- unrealistic,
- gawky,
- challenging,
- lost,
- onerous,
- despair,
- unplayable,
- Challenged,
- dream,
- chase,
- hopeless,
- another,
- too,
- hard.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- gaunt,
- blunderheaded,
- rude,
- boorish,
- uncouth,
- gaucherie,
- rigour,
- cack-handed,
- overgrown,
- desperate,
- labored,
- ill timed,
- heavy-handed,
- knotted,
- Lumping,
- clumsiness,
- drudgery,
- incumbent,
- pathless,
- disadvantageous,
- ponderousness,
- cranky,
- convoluted,
- incompetent,
- inopportune,
- unwieldiness,
- complicated,
- trackless,
- inappropriate,
- puffy,
- Irksome,
- ill-chosen,
- turgid,
- bungling,
- left-hand,
- maladroit,
- stilted,
- whacking,
- awkwardness,
- plump,
- impotent,
- Butter-fingered,
- inapt,
- corpulent,
- unruly,
- intricate,
- plaguy,
- sweat,
- labyrinthine,
- contrary,
- crosswise,
- superincumbent,
- uncorrectable,
- overweight,
- careless,
- untimely,
- slowness,
- pompous,
- weighing,
- Ox-like,
- swollen,
- lumpy,
- subnormality,
- substantial,
- embarrassment,
- forced,
- dense,
- bombastic,
- tangled,
- whopping,
- chunky,
- fumbling,
- rickety,
- bumbling,
- clumsy-fisted,
- refractory,
- Blundering,
- perverse,
- impracticable,
- bovine,
- rough,
- fat,
- graceless,
- severity,
- ponderable,
- troublesome,
- unsettling,
- left-handed,
- spanking,
- formal,
- uncoordinated,
- stiff,
- rugged,
- obese,
- Inkhorn,
- wonk,
- cloddish,
- ineptness,
- toil,
- Disrupting,
- halting,
- unsuitability,
- leaden,
- inept,
- heft,
- oversized,
- donkeywork,
- stiffness,
- ham-fisted,
- thumping,
- bulkiness,
- sesquipedalian,
- unskilful,
- in the way,
- klutzy,
- Invious,
- labor,
- bothersome,
- deep,
- upsetting,
- walloping,
- ungraceful,
- loutish,
- clumsy person,
- thundering,
- gauche,
- irritating,
- inelegant,
- DEADWEIGHT CARGO,
- cramped,
- disturbing,
- troublesomeness,
- Massy,
- annoying,
- sloppy,
- oppressive,
- slouching.
How to use "Unwieldy" in context?
Unwieldy adjective adjective:
1. large, awkward, and unmanageable in size or shape; "a bulky package"; "a cumbersome car"; "a cumbersome dress"; "a large dog"; "a cumbersome workload"; "a cumbersome explanation"
2. requiring much effort or physical strength to move or control; "a cumbersome metal stool"; "a cumbersome machine"; "a cumbersome handshake"; "a cumbersome way of speaking"
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Equivalence
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Adjective
impractical.
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Independent
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Adjective
awkward, challenging, clumsy, complex, convoluted, daunting, difficult, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual, tiresome, weighty.
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Adjective
burdensome, complicated, cumbersome, heavy, heavy-handed, inefficient, inflexible, onerous, ponderous, rigid.
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