unwieldsome

English

Etymology

From un- + wieldsome.

Adjective

unwieldsome (comparative more unwieldsome, superlative most unwieldsome)

  1. (obsolete) Not easily wielded or managed.
    • 1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The. XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, Book 7, p. 80:
      And as from dull vnwieldsome age to youth he backward drew:
      Euen so a liuely youthfull spright did in his heart renew
    • 1579, “Alexander the Great”, in Thomas North, transl., edited by W. H. D. Rouse, Plutarch’s Lives, volume 7, London: J.M. Dent, published 1899, page 89:
      [] his army was very heavy and unwieldsome to remove, for the wonderful carriage and spoils they had with them:

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