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wieldsome

wieldsome adjective: characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.

Adjective

wieldsome (comparative more wieldsome, superlative most wieldsome)

  1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.
    • […] Cesar […] commaunded that the Galleyes wherof the facion was more straunge to the sauage Britons, and the mouing more redy and wieldsome, should be remoued a lyttell from the shyps of Burthen […]1565, Arthur Golding, transl., The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia, London: William Seres, Book Four, p. 99b
    • The wieldsome agencies are, again, two-fold. Those that are authorative and of the government, mandatory; the others in part or altogether voluntary are more directory than mandatory.1902, The State of Corrections: Proceedings, ACA Annual Conferences
    Synonyms:
    wieldy, manageable
    Antonyms:
    unwieldsome

Synonyms of wieldsome

Antonyms

Forms of wieldsome

comparativemore wieldsome
superlativemost wieldsome

Origin of wieldsome

From wield + -some.

Words formed from wieldsome

Questions about wieldsome

What does wieldsome mean?
Wieldsome means characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.
What part of speech is wieldsome?
Wieldsome is an adjective.

Words near wieldsome in the dictionary

  1. wieldiest
  2. wieldiness
  3. wielding
  4. wieldless
  5. wields
  6. wieldsome
  7. wieldy
  8. Wielgus
  9. Wielguses
  10. Wieliczka
  11. Wielkopolska Province

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