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Word Meanings - UNWIELDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.
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- BULKY
Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne. - PONDEROUS
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3. - MASSIVELY
In a heavy mass. - AMPLENESS
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. - PONDEROUSLY
In a ponderous manner. - GIGANTIC
1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. - HEAVY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl. - GIGANTICAL
Bulky, big. Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv. - LARGE-ACRED
Possessing much land. - AMPLECTANT
Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray. - PONDEROUSNESS
The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity. - MASSIVENESS
The state or quality of being massive; massiness. - AMPLEXATION
An embrace. An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall. - BRAWNY
Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving. Syn. -- Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic; stalwart; powerful; robust. - UNWIELDY
Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n. - LARGE-HANDED
Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful. - BURLY
1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter - LARGE-HEARTED
Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n. - MASSIVE
In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock , a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock. (more - AMPLEXICAUL
Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray. - UNEXAMPLED
Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - FOOL-LARGESSE
Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer. - TOP-HEAVY
Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton. - CHAMPLEVE
Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, - EXAMPLESS
Exampleless. B. Jonson. - HURLY-BURLY
Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles. - EXAMPLE
orig., what is taken out of a larger quantity, as a sample, from 1. One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen. 2. That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy. For I have