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: unmanageable.

Roget 319: weighty; weighing etc. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish^†, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.    incumbent, superincumbent^†.    ... show more

Roget 647: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious^†; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit etc. (inconsonant) 24.    ill-contrived, ill-advised; unsatisfactory; unprofitable &c.; unsubservient etc. (useless) 645; inopportune etc. (unseasonable) 135; out of place, in the wrong place; improper, unseemly.    clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky^†; unmanageable etc. (impracticable) 704; impedient etc. (in the way) 706^†.    unnecessary etc. (redundant) 641.    ... show more

Roget 192: large, big; great etc. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious etc. 180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.    corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.    lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy etc. (swollen) 194.    huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite etc. 105.    large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.    immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of.    of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.    ... show more

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose^†, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done.    difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water.    awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn etc. (obstinate) 606; perverse, refractory, plaguy^†, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious^†; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine etc. (convoluted) 248; intricate, complicated etc. (tangled) 59; impracticable etc. (impossible) 471; not feasible etc. 470; desperate etc. (hopeless) 859.    embarrassing, perplexing etc. (uncertain) 475; delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.    under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape etc. n., in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.    reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss, etc. (uncertain) 475; at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois [Fr.], driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.    accomplished with difficulty; hard-fought, hard-earned.    ... show more

Polish: nieporęczny

Difficult to work or manipulate.

Lacking grace in movement or posture:
— Heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair.

synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly.

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental^†, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless^†; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous^†, unbeautiful; beautiless^†, semibeautiful; shapeless etc. (amorphous) 241.    misshapen, misproportioned^†; monstrous; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; dumpy etc. (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked etc. (distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.    graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish^†; lumbering; hulky^†, hulking; unwieldy.    squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome^†, gruesome.    frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    foul etc. (dirty) 653; dingy etc. (colorless) 429; gaudy etc. (color) 428; disfigured etc. v.; discolored.    ... show more

Polish: niezgrabny, niezdarny, niezręczny