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Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
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unwieldiness
Word definitions for unwieldiness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" [syn: awkwardness , cumbersomeness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, a. Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. ``A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old.'' --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- Un*wield"i*ly , adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness , n.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being unwieldy.
Usage examples of unwieldiness.
Daily her absurd unwieldiness was exhibited to crowds screaming with laughter.
Yet the narrow-beamed Fuegian craft she was in would hold only four more occupants, and that with a certain risk and unwieldiness.
In the form in which I repeated it to myself it had not the right number of feet, but as I made no attempt to count them, between its unwieldiness and a classical line of poetry it seemed as though no common measure could exist.