unwieldsome
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unwieldsome (comparative more unwieldsome, superlative most unwieldsome)
- (obsolete) Not easily wielded or managed.
- 1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The. XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis[1], London: William Seres, Book 7, p. 80:
- And as from dull vnwieldsome age to youth he backward drew:
Euen so a liuely youthfull spright did in his heart renew
- 1579, “Alexander the Great”, in Thomas North, transl., edited by W. H. D. Rouse, Plutarch’s Lives[2], volume 7, London: J.M. Dent, published 1899, page 89:
- […] his army was very heavy and unwieldsome to remove, for the wonderful carriage and spoils they had with them: