unwieldy
adjective/ʌnˈwiːldi/
Frequency rank: #15,629 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
difficult to handle or manage because of being large, heavy, or complex.
Example sentence
The old machine was so unwieldy that two workers were needed just to move it across the room.
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