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Meaning of "unwieldily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNWIELDILY

unwieldily  [ʌnˈwiːldɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNWIELDILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unwieldily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES UNWIELDILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unwieldily in the English dictionary

The definition of unwieldily in the dictionary is in a manner that is too heavy, large, or awkwardly shaped to be easily handled. Other definition of unwieldily is in an ungainly or clumsy manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNWIELDILY


bloodily
ˈblʌdɪlɪ
bodily
ˈbɒdɪlɪ
dilli
ˈdɪlɪ
dilly
ˈdɪlɪ
dowdily
ˈdaʊdɪlɪ
gaudily
ˈɡɔːdɪlɪ
giddily
ˈɡɪdɪlɪ
greedily
ˈɡriːdɪlɪ
handily
ˈhændɪlɪ
moodily
ˈmuːdɪlɪ
Piccadilly
ˌpɪkəˈdɪlɪ
readily
ˈrɛdɪlɪ
ruddily
ˈrʌdɪlɪ
shoddily
ˈʃɒdɪlɪ
speedily
ˈspiːdɪlɪ
steadily
ˈstɛdɪlɪ
sturdily
ˈstɜːdɪlɪ
tardily
ˈtɑːdɪlɪ
tidily
ˈtaɪdɪlɪ
unsteadily
ʌnˈstedɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNWIELDILY

unwholesomeness
unwieldiness
unwieldlily
unwieldliness
unwieldly
unwieldy
unwifelike
unwifely
unwigged
unwilful
unwill
unwilled
unwilling
unwillingly
unwillingness
unwind
unwindable
unwinder
unwinged
unwinking

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNWIELDILY

bawdily
beadily
cloudily
hardily
headily
muddily
needily
randily
reedily
rowdily
seedily
shadily
trendily
unhandily
unreadily
untidily
weedily
windily
wordily
woundily

Synonyms and antonyms of unwieldily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unwieldily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNWIELDILY

Find out the translation of unwieldily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unwieldily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unwieldily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不方便的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

unwieldily
570 millions of speakers

English

unwieldily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unwieldily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unwieldily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unwieldily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unwieldily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unwieldily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

unwieldily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan berat badan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unwieldily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unwieldily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unwieldily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bantal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unwieldily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unwieldily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरुपयोगीपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unwieldily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

unwieldily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unwieldily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unwieldily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unwieldily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unwieldily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unwieldily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unwieldily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unwieldily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unwieldily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNWIELDILY»

The term «unwieldily» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.030 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNWIELDILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unwieldily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unwieldily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unwieldily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNWIELDILY»

Discover the use of unwieldily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unwieldily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Applications of Grammar: Mastering Communication Skills
10. tenaciously — comparative If we cling less tenaciously to moral standards, they all will be eroded in our society. 1 1 . unwieldily — superlative Even though your package was the same size as the others, it was the least unwieldily handled ...
Ed Shewan, Annie Lee Sloan, 1995
2
The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
UNWIELDILY. adv. Heavily ; with difficult motion. — Unwieldily they wallow first in ooze. Dryd. * UNWIELDINESS. »./ Heaviness; difficulty to move, or be moved. — A cumbersome unwicldness. Donne. — The unwicldness of its massy bulk.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807
3
Infant Maintenance and General Service Manual SP 001: A ...
The Infant idle receptacle (cot) is a functional if unwieldily accessory that provides a stable platform for idling Infants. Construction usually includes a collapsible or removable side allowing easy access to the Infant for servicing. Workshop ...
Chris Duvall, 2013
4
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
UNWIELDILY. adv. Heavily ; with difficult motion. — Unwieldily they wallow first in ooze. Drjd. * UNWIELDINESS. »•/. Heaviness; difficulty to move or be moved. — A cumbersome unwieldiness. Donne- — The unwitldiness of its massy bulk.
‎1816
5
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions.
James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu, 2012
6
Women in Public, 1850-1900: Documents of the Victorian ...
... marry, and should have moderate families, rather than that fewer should marry and have unwieldily large ones; for if families are moderate there will be a greater reserve of health and strength left in the mothers for each birth, the production ...
Patricia Hollis, 2013
7
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works
101 tested, and locomotives might still have heen dragging themselves unwieldily along at little more than five or six miles an hour. The steam-hlast had scarcely been adopted, with so decided a success, when Mr. Stephenson, observing the ...
Samuel Smiles, 1862
8
Fraser's Magazine
The rushlng waters exalt it on high ;— Shaken and shivered from brow to base, It slides amain, unwieldily, Into the universal sea; And instantly the echoing sky Howls to the howl of the hapless race That burthen the hill, or under it die! Yonder  ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1830
9
A Critical Enquiry into the Moral Writings of Dr. Samuel ...
[As they meet, Poz, qfter an indignant scowl, ' turns from B02, and unwieldily endeavours to run away from him. Boz pursues, and - soon overtakes him] ' Boz. WHY, my dear Doctor, surely you do not know me again, or I can hardly imagine you ...
William Mudford, 1802
10
The recreations of a country parson
... that her little boy has red hair and a squint, that the potatoes he rears are abominably bad, that he is getting unwieldily stout, that his riding-horse has no hair on his tail. All these things, and a hundred more, such people say with that mixture ...
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, 1870

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNWIELDILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unwieldily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Music to our ears – Zelda: Ocarina of Time heads to Wii U this week
Nintendo Life reports that it's a rough diamond: “An underwhelming presentation and an unwieldily camera make it a tougher sell for non-fans, but if you're ... «Games Asylum, Jun 15»
2
Closing Reception for Two Steve Mastroianni Exhibits During …
“The camera itself is large and unwieldily, requiring a tripod and a dedicated space to set it up. The process of creating the exposure is as far from point and ... «Cleveland Scene Weekly, May 15»
3
Dyson Reveals Its 20 Best Inventions of 2014. Which Is Your Pick?
Incubators are expensive and unwieldily to transport—and designer James Roberts says that 85 infants out of every 1,000 childbirths in refugee camps will die ... «Lifehacker UK, Oct 14»
4
Reel Toronto: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
But here, with the unwieldily named The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, we finally get our slice of the pie. Yes, a decently disguised Toronto takes its turn as a ... «Torontoist, Oct 14»
5
The First Thing I Made Was A Weapon: The Multiversity Annotations …
We'll be focusing here on the second issue of the maxiseries, the unwieldily titled The Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the ... «ComicsAlliance, Sep 14»
6
Anti-Israel Malaysians To Boycott Big Macs
Malaysia's New Straits Times spoke with Dr Mohd Akbal Abdullah, who holds the unwieldily title of “Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia's Faculty of Science, ... «Heeb Magazine, Aug 14»
7
The great irony of Silicon Valley's curated-music craze
The tech giant has plans to fold Songza and its team of 50 or so curators into the unwieldily named Google Play Music All Access, a subscription-based ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 14»
8
Laster SeeThru: A $350 camera-free Google Glass alternative for …
Another thing to note here is that the SeeThru, while conceptually interesting, might be even more conspicuous, unwieldily, and visually unappealing than Glass ... «VentureBeat, Jan 14»
9
Good Guy Ringwraith Is Protagonist of New LORD OF THE RINGS …
In that series from a Galaxy far, far away, Darth Vader discovers a young pupil who possesses unwieldily power, rivaling the Emperor. Yeah… it's pretty much ... «Unleash The Fanboy, Dec 13»
10
Matt Reeves Reveals When Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Is Set …
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the equally unwieldily titled sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is set to make an appearance at Comic-Con this Saturday ... «Bleeding Cool News, Jul 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Unwieldily [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/unwieldily>. May 2024 ».
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