Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily wielded or managed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of wielding; dexterous; strong; active.
- Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; not unwieldy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to
unwieldy .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. easy to handle or use or manage
Etymologies
- Early Modern English, first attested in the late 16th century. Back-formation from unwieldy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I have Photoshop Elements, too, but it is too "wieldy" sometimes.”
“With a limited pool of jobs, the program stands to be much more wieldy, but parents stand to get awful testy when they find out there's no room for their kids.”
The Washington Post: D.C. summer jobs program reaches capacity
“The seats are comfortable; the driving position upright and natural; the leather-trimmed steering wheel with a flat bottom feels wieldy and right in your hands.”
“I imagine the most wieldy weapon an "xkcd" character would have at it's disposal would be a piece of chalk, or something.”
“The shift to a G20 has been welcome, but it will also mean a less wieldy system of global governance.”
“Foursquare's website, currently the heavy baggage to its wieldy mobile platform, could become more central to the user experience.”
“If that's not going to be the case, with the super-structure of the EU so wieldy and its policy-making machinery a barrier to future economic efficiency, then its leaders and citizens have a problem.”
The Wall Street Journal: Europe is Acting as Though it Wants to be Left Behind
“If you can validate spending three times the cash for something a bit less wieldy in situations where you are constantly on the go, need it to be able to be used as a palmtop, etc, go ahead -- but for those of us using these, and able to enjoy them, the validationisn't there, and neither is it there for Apple's excuses as to why they won't create one of these beauties themselves.”
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“You can't have 60 Democrats all saying I need this project for my district, it's just -- the whole process becomes un-wieldy.”
“And if that's true, it suggests a frame work for the "Seven Secrets" project that is more wieldy: a "Ten Week " or "100-Day" Body-Mind Diet based around these concepts, supported by simple meditation and goal-setting practices.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wieldy’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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[Open] Yes, it really is a word.
Bona fide words that appear misspelled or made-up. See also “Correctly-spelled words that look like misspellings of other words”.
resplendishant, apprehensible, splendent, splendiferous, magnifical, queem, ostentiferous, squiz, researchful, snaffle, blench, debulition and 22 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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Angharad's Words
filtrum, aglet, cathect, anent, crepuscular, rigmarole, exert, liripipe, pekoe, perfuse, langerhans, vegemite and 41 more...
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Prosie: How I Met My Wife
by Jack Winter
Published 25 July 1994, The New Yorker
It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and conso...requited, committal, at a godly hour, defatigable, to much avail, choate, advertently, nomer, up to some good, savory character, mayed, bunk a few myths and 52 more...
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sans prefix
cumber, fatigable, wieldy, ruly, prandial, humously, combobulate, couth, crepit, dain, prave, ert and 25 more...
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Words I love
Just a collection of words I love.
insipidity, insipid, vapid, banal, holly, enchiridion, hazel, sterile, iota, onus, mete, veer and 10 more...
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Various
inselberg, excoriate, counterveil, palliate, exorable, wieldy, evitable, pseudandry, maritorious, patrocliny, liminal, span-new and 24 more...
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