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What is the adjective for unwieldiness?

What's the adjective for unwieldiness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb unwield which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

unwieldy
  1. (obsolete) Lacking strength; weak.
  2. (obsolete) Ungraceful in movement.
  3. Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.
  4. Badly managed or operated.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “True, his bike was unwieldy by modern standards, weighing 57 lb, but it was, and is, clearly the world's first such machine.”
      “From still lifes to landscapes, graceful interiors to unwieldy allegorical scenes, his work is waywardly old-fashioned.”
      “They expect him to cut the unwieldy board by 10, give the public a bigger voice.”
unwieldly
  1. (possibly nonstandard) Alternative form of unwieldy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But if they cannot be tamed, then the sooner this unwieldly giant is broken up and Mr Turner takes that ten-year break, the better.”
      “It fits neatly into Cor Boonstra's scheme to remodel the unwieldly Dutch electrical and electronics conglomerate.”
      “Starved of funds to finance unwieldly state enterprises, he announced on June 22nd that subsidies would be cut.”
unwielded
  1. Not wielded.
unwieldier
unwieldiest
unwielding
  1. present participle of unwield
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