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Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
Stu Jackson

Meaning of "unwieldy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNWIELDY

unwieldy  [ʌnˈwiːldɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNWIELDY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unwieldy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNWIELDY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unwieldy in the English dictionary

The definition of unwieldy in the dictionary is too heavy, large, or awkwardly shaped to be easily handled. Other definition of unwieldy is ungainly; clumsy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNWIELDY


alcalde
ælˈkældɪ
baldy
ˈbɔːldɪ
bieldy
ˈbiːldɪ
coldie
ˈkəʊldɪ
Fittipaldi
ˌfɪtɪˈpældɪ
garibaldi
ˌɡærɪˈbɔːldɪ
goldy
ˈɡəʊldɪ
Grimaldi
ɡrɪˈmɔːldɪ
higgledy-piggledy
ˈhɪɡəldɪˈpɪɡəldɪ
laldie
ˈlældɪ
moldy
ˈməʊldɪ
mouldy
ˈməʊldɪ
olde
ˈəʊldɪ
olde-worlde
ˈəʊldɪˈwɜːldɪ
oldie
ˈəʊldɪ
Vivaldi
vɪˈvældɪ
wieldy
ˈwiːldɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNWIELDY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNWIELDY

already
anybody
at the ready
body
buddy
candy
comedy
daddy
everybody
handy
Kennedy
Kirkcaldy
lady
nobody
ready
sandy
somebody
study
teddy
trendy

Synonyms and antonyms of unwieldy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNWIELDY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unwieldy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unwieldy

Translation of «unwieldy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNWIELDY

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

Translator English - Chinese

笨重的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

difícil de manejar
570 millions of speakers

English

unwieldy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बोझल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير عملي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

громоздким
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desajeitado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জবরজং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

encombrant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sukar dikawal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unhandlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

動かしにくい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 다루기 힘든
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unwieldy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chậm chạp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அதிகாரமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जोरदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hantal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poco maneggevole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieporęczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

громіздким
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greoi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσκίνητο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lomp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

otymplig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uhåndterlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unwieldy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNWIELDY»

The term «unwieldy» is regularly used and occupies the 56.414 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNWIELDY» OVER TIME

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

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5 QUOTES WITH «UNWIELDY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unwieldy.
1
Mick Ebeling
The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
2
Miranda Hart
If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.
3
Stu Jackson
Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
4
John Mica
When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.
5
Mark Steyn
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNWIELDY»

Discover the use of unwieldy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unwieldy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics since ...
The Unwieldy American State offers a political and legal history of the administrative state from the 19405 through the early 1960s. After Progressive Era reforms and New Deal policies shifted a substantial amount of power to administrators, ...
Joanna L. Grisinger, 2012
2
Reports from Committees
If the duties which are now performed by the corporation of London were devolved upon your Board, would you not be just as unwieldy as if the whole duties were imposed upon the corporation? — If our Board were made a corporation for the ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1861
3
Milton's Editors and Commentators from Patrick Hume to Henry ...
345: "Gambol'd before them, th' unwieldy' elephant", where he accentuates the first syllable of "unwieldy", although, as he especially remarks, "The Author knew the common Pronunciation to be in the Second ; as VII. 411. Wallowing unwieldy.
Ants Oras, 1967
4
A Companion to Greek Studies
them the Macedonian equipment of sarissa and shield. They fought with unwieldy masses of inferior troops rather than with the small but highly trained army which Alexander had used at Issus or Arbela. Their tendency to sacrifice quality to ...
5
Dockyard Economy and Naval Power. [With plates.]
Tl" unwieldy (“"8"- The unwieldy dockyard gangs are the original of the unwieldy convict gangs, which have been so much and justly censured. A small job which in a private shipyard would not keep more than half a dozen men going is in the ...
Patrick BARRY (Author of “Dockyard Economy, ” etc.), 1863
6
Fated Sky: The Femina Furens in Shakespeare
Introduction: An. Unwieldy. Lump? Failing in a woman, whether aesthetic or moral, is always easier to point to than a failure of integration within language and subjectivity itself. If we try to read Shakespeare in terms of the second, however, ...
Michael L. Stapleton, 2000
7
Hurricane Katrina : the roles of U.S. Department of Homeland ...
They felt that K would create a huge, unwieldy, dominating organization. During the Interviews three possible options surfaced for combining recovery and response. Option 1 leaves the existing response and recovery organizations Intact but ...
8
American Military Vehicles of World War I: An Illustrated ...
The rare rifle's 35-pound weight and heavy recoil made it unwieldy. Most light tanks of the day were vulnerable to artillery fire (for example the wheeled German 77 mm gun), large ditches and mechani- cal breakdown. Comparatively speaking  ...
Albert Mroz, 2009
9
Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival
As an extension of social discourse, however, LPs were notoriously unwieldy. They were fragile, bulky, and easily damaged by heat or improper storage. They could be produced (or reproduced) only in large runs on specialized equipment.
John Bealle, 2005
10
A compendious dictionary of the Latin tongue: for the use of ...
Эг. i, 25. fi homines— motu corporis vafti at- ]ue agreftes, awkward, unwieldy, Cic. Or. 1 , 2 J. rafti icius, Virg. A.j, 198. impetus eft fulvis ct falla leonibus iia, Ov. M. 10, 551, iter vallum, Ц.438. btratus vaftus et canorus,Col. 7, 12,3. ralbe manus, Ov.
Alexander Adam, 1805

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNWIELDY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unwieldy is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Legacy of Racism and Slavery Dramatized in the Unwieldy
Gardley is playing with a grandiosity that is sometimes unwieldy—New Yorker critic Hilton Als, while praising another one of Gardley's plays, wrote that "his ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
2
'Unwieldy' Senior Prank at Council Rock South Under Investigation
The watermelon was tossed during a class transition and “grew unwieldy” when students started throwing the fruit in the library lobby, Principal Albert R. Funk ... «Patch.com, Jun 15»
3
Don't Accommodate the GOP's Unwieldy 2016 Field – Cull It
In early January, The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol determined that the Republican Party would be a better party, and the ultimate 2016 presidential nominee a ... «Commentary Magazine, Jun 15»
4
Bonn UN talks seek to trim unwieldy climate change plan
OSLO Governments will try on Monday to streamline an 89-page draft text of a U.N. deal to fight climate change due to be agreed in Paris in December, hoping ... «Reuters, May 15»
5
Taming Your Organization's Unwieldy Data Jungle
Tom Scearce is product marketing manager at Attachmate and Novell for the enterprise file management market. By 2020, research firm IDC predicts a 4,300 ... «Data Center Knowledge, May 15»
6
Unwieldy Ontario law blamed for lack of health privacy prosecutions
Unwieldy Ontario law blamed for lack of health privacy prosecutions. Punishing medical-records snoopers requires multiple investigations within a six-month ... «Toronto Star, May 15»
7
Avengers: Age Of Ultron, review: A very choppy and unwieldy affair
The Avengers have re-assembled, making another almighty assault on the early summer box office but Age Of Ultron turns out to be a very choppy and unwieldy ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
8
Stag beetles' unwieldy jaws are surprisingly slick in flight
Stag beetles wield fearsome mandibles almost as big as their bodies, but you'd think they're a bit of a drag when it comes to flying. Now it seems the oversized ... «New Scientist, Apr 15»
9
Caught in an unwieldy Web
The Internet is more dangerous than we imagine. For children, who spend more time online than in a playground, the Web poses untold risks that parents have ... «The Hindu, Mar 15»
10
Public defender cuts expose unwieldy funding system
The state owes you an attorney, but staffing at public defenders offices is about to take a hit. It's a money issue. Attorneys available to clients who can't afford ... «Shreveport Times, Mar 15»

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