† unwieldsomeadj.
Obsolete.
1. Of age: Impotent; = unwieldy adj. 1b. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > weak with age > of age: attended by weakness
unwieldy1430
unwieldsome1567
saplessa1616
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 85 From dull vnwieldsome age to youth he backward drew.
2. Unwieldy.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things)
wickc1330
riotous1340
wickeda1352
untreatablec1374
frowarda1400
inobedient1495
stubborn?1518
unwieldya1538
unruly1548
wieldlessa1560
hard1560
untoward1566
tickle1570
churlish1577
unwieldsome1579
rebellious1587
disobedient1588
unframeable1593
unwilling1593
untractable1601
unmanageable1606
intractable1607
surly1609
unwedgeablea1616
dogged1627
uncontrollable1648
obdurate1651
morose1652
uncompliant1659
sullen1678
unpliant1716
ungovernable1773
sulky1867
intractile1880
unwieldly1881
bunglesome1915
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1595) 748 Alexander..perceiuing that his armie was very heauy and vnwildsom to remoue, for the..spoiles they had with them.
1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. D1 Like prisoners..debarred exercise, fatte and vnweildsome.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 138 Body being a stour unweildsom thing,..it cannot stir without asking another bodies leave to crowd by.
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