unwieldyadjective
uk/ʌnˈwiːl.di/us/ʌnˈwiːl.di/unwieldy adjective (DIFFICULT TO MOVE)
An unwieldy object is difficult to move or handle because it is heavy, large, or a strange shape:
A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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Thick, dense and heavy
unwieldy adjective (NOT EFFECTIVE)
An unwieldy system is slow and not effective, usually because it is too big, badly organized, or involves too many different organizations or people:
One disadvantage for the bank is that its huge size - over 15,000 staff - makes it unwieldy and slow-moving.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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