wieldless

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adjective

Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.

First used 16th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectivewieldless (comparative more wieldless, superlative most wieldless)

comparative more wieldless · superlative most wieldless

  1. obsoleteNot to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.First known use 16th c.

    with the weight of his owne weeldlesse might / He falleth nigh to ground, and scarse recovereth flight.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From wield + -less.

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