From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, adjective Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. ''A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old.'' --Clarendon. -- {Un*wield"i*ly}, adverb -- {Un*wield"i*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {unmanageable}] [ant: {wieldy}]
2: 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" [syn: {gawky}, {clumsy}, {clunky}, {ungainly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "unwieldy": Latinate, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contrary, cramped, crosswise, cumbersome, cumbrous, discommodious, elephantine, encumbering, fingers all thumbs, forced, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, guinde, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, impractical, incommodious, inconvenient, incumbent, inelegant, inkhorn, labored, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, onerous, oppressive, oversized, perverse, pompous, ponderous, sesquipedalian, sloppy, stiff, stilted, superincumbent, troublesome, turgid, uncontrollable, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unmanageable
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