UNWIELDLY Synonyms

• in an awkward manner

• of large size for its weight

• lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• showing lack of skill or aptitude

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• making a clunking sound

• difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• lacking graciousness

• lacking grace; clumsy

• lacking social polish

• of comparatively great physical weight or density

• unusually great in degree or quantity or number

• of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment

• marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness

• of great intensity or power or force

• (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight

• an actor who plays villainous roles

• a serious (or tragic) role in a play

• slowly as if burdened by much weight

• usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

• (used of soil) compact and fine-grained

• darkened by clouds

• (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• of relatively large extent and density

• made of fabric having considerable thickness

• prodigious

• full and loud and deep

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• slow and laborious because of weight

• large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work

• dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal

• sharply inclined

• full of; bearing great weight

• requiring or showing effort

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• lacking lightness or liveliness

• (of sleep) deep and complete

• in an advanced stage of pregnancy

• not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters

• not practical or realizable; speculative

• lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

• slow and laborious because of weight

• having great mass and weight and unwieldiness

• labored and dull

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• an ordinary man

• the dead body of a human being

• to a great degree

• in a stiff manner

• not moving or operating freely

• strong, vigorous

• rigidly formal

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• very drunk

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape

• hard to control

• difficult to solve or alleviate

• incapable of being controlled or managed

• difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape

• difficult to work or manipulate

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• an unsteady uneven gait

• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

• walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly

• miss a step and fall or nearly fall

• encounter by chance

• make an error

• Of a person, or movement: not handy, inept, clumsy, not dexterous.

• Awkward; not convenient.