unhandy

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ handy.

Adjective

unhandy (comparative unhandier, superlative unhandiest)

1. Of a person, or movement: not handy; inept; clumsy; not dexterous.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 177:

     Bradly collected Pippies; their trick vanishing was not too swift for his unhandy clutches.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:

     "Strike your father, eh?" Syed Omar launched an unhandy cuff, then another.

2. Awkward; not convenient.

Derived terms

• unhandiness