unwieldy

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• UK: /ˌʌnˈwɪəl.di/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 N W IY1 L D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English unweldy, equivalent to un- + wieldy. Cognate with Old Frisian unweldich, unweldech (“having no power, involuntary”), Middle Dutch onweldich (“having no control or mastery over”), Middle Low German unweldich (“unwieldy”). Compare also Old High German unwaltīg (“powerless”), whence Middle High German unwaltic, German ungewaltig (“powerless, unmighty”).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: неудобен (neudoben) — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Catalan: farragós — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Catalan: immanejable — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Chinese Mandarin: 笨重的 (bènzhòng de) — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Czech: nešikovný — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Czech: neohrabaný — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Danish: uhåndterlig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Dutch: log — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Esperanto: grandaĉa — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Esperanto: maloportuna — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Esperanto: malpraktika — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Esperanto: misportenda — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Finnish: kömpelö — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Finnish: hankala — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• French: encombrant — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• French: lourd — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• French: peu maniable — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• German: unhandlich — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• German: schwerfällig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• German: sperrig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• German: klobig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Hungarian: ormótlan — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Irish: liobarnach — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Irish: anásta — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Italian: scomodo — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Italian: ingombrante — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Latin: inhabilis — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Manx: meydlagh — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Manx: lheibeidjagh — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Manx: trome — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Manx: neuyesh — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Māori: pūhetī — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Māori: pūwhetī — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Māori: pūheki — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Māori: pūwheki — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Norwegian: tungvinn — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Norwegian Bokmål: uhåndterlig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Norwegian Bokmål: uhandterlig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Norwegian Nynorsk: uhandterleg — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ulagleg — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Plautdietsch: schwoafalich — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Polish: nieporęczny — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Portuguese: imanejável — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Portuguese: imanuseável — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Russian: неподъёмный (nepodʺjómnyj) — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Russian: неудобный (neudobnyj) — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Spanish: farragoso — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Swedish: otymplig — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Thai: เทอะทะ — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Thai: อุ้ยอ้าย — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Thai: ไม่เหมาะมือ — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate
• Thai: ไม่คล่องตัว — difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate