- Types Of Speech
- You can use unwieldy as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Unwieldy
- A 3 syllables article and 8 letters with the letters d, e, i, l, n, u, w, and y, 5 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ie. Unwieldy starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters u, un, unw, unwi, unwie, and the ending characters are y, dy, ldy, eldy, ieldy, ..
- Definition
- Lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Unwieldy is set as a sat word that starts with u, ends with y, 3 syllables, 3 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Unwieldy in Pig Latin is said as "unwieldyay or unwieldyway".
- Unigram
- u | n | w | i | e | l | d | y
- Bigram
- un | nw | wi | ie | el | ld | dy
- Trigram
- unw | nwi | wie | iel | eld | ldy
- Quadrigram
- unwi | nwie | wiel | ield | eldy
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- lacking grace in movement or posture;
"a gawky lad with long ungainly legs";
"clumsy fingers";
"what an ungainly creature a giraffe is";
"heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
- Article Examples
- difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape;
"we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter";
"almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| All Thumbs | |
| Apartment | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
| Arachnidian | relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida |
| Arachnoid | air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs |
| Artificial | artificially formal "that artificial humility that her husband hated" "contrived coyness" "a stilted letter of acknowledgment" "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" |
| Awkward | not at ease socially unsure and constrained in manner "awkward and reserved at parties" "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know" "was always uneasy with strangers" |
| Bloated | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas "hungry children with bloated stomachs" "he had a grossly distended stomach" "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids" "swollen hands" "tumescent tissue" "puffy tumid flesh" |
| Blunderheaded | |
| Blundering | |
| Bombastic | ostentatiously lofty in style "a man given to large talk" "tumid political prose" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Unwieldy
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Unwieldy | lacking grace in movement or posture "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs" "clumsy fingers" "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is" "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" |
View English words with the unique letters used in unwieldy. Words With The Letters Deilnuwy
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Awkward | not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know"; "was always uneasy with strangers" |
Unwieldy Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With U
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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