UNHANDY

Definition: UNHANDY

UNHANDY

Adjective

1. Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNHANDY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Synonym: UNHANDY

Unskillfulness

Adjective: unskillful; inexpert; bungling;Verb: awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky.

Crosswords: UNHANDY

Books

• Unhandy Handyman's Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i pavolitshëm (awkward, cumbersome), i parehatshëm (comfortless, incommodious, uncomfortable, uneasy), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير ملائم (awkward, awkwardly, clumsy, disadvantageous, inadequate, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurate, inconvenient, inept, unfortunate, unfriendly, unseemly, unsuitable, untidy, untimely). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, rude, shambling, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy), който не е наблизо, който не е подръка, неудобен (awkward, bulky, comfortless, cramped, embarrassing, incommodious, inconvenient, invidious, self conscious, uncomfortable), непохватен (artless, awkward, bumbling, chuckle, clumsy, gawky, heavy, lubberly, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful). (various references)

Chinese 

不得勁 (awkward, be indisposed, not feel well). (various references)

Czech

neobratný (clumsy, maladroit, ungainly, unskillful). (various references)

Farsi 

مشکل بدست امده , نامناسب برای حمل ونقل , ناراحت (Distraught, Fidgety, Tense, Uncomfortable, Uneasy, Upset), دورازدسترس . (various references)

French

incommode (uncomfortable). (various references)

German

unhandlich (bulky, cumbersome, unhandily, unmanageable, unwieldily, unwieldy). (various references)

Greek 

αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unskillful), δυσχείριστοσ. (various references)

Hungarian

ügyetlen (awkward, blundering, clumsy, freshwater, fumbling, gawky, gimp, half-assed, impolitic, inexpert, left handed, lumpish, maladroit, uneasy, unskilful, unskillful). (various references)

Italian

scomodo (awkward, comfortless, inconvenient, uncomfortable, uneasy, unintimate), maldestro (all thumbs, awkward, clumsy, gauche, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, ill at ease, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit), goffo (awkward, clumsy, cubbish, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, hobbledehoy, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, ungainly). (various references)

Manx

neulauee (awkward), maaigagh (clumsy, pawed, pawlike, pawy). (various references)

Pig Latin

andyunhay.(various references)

Portuguese

maljeitoso, incómodo (ailment, annoyance, annoying, awkward, bumbling, cumbersome, cumbrous, discomfort, dreadful, intrusive, left-handed, meddler, muff, nagging, nuisance, pesky, plaguesome, ragtime, rush, shrill, thorn, tiresome, trouble, troublesome, uncomfortable, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, vexing, worrisome), difícil de manejar (unworkable), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unskilful, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Romanian

incomod (awkward, clumsy, comfortless, incommodious, inconvenient, tedious, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy). (various references)

Russian 

неудобный (awkward, difficult-to-use, incommodious, inconvenient, unchristian, uncomfortable, undesirable, uneasy). (various references)

Scottish

uipear (unhandy craftsman). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezgrapan (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, gangling, gauche, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly, unwieldy), nevešt (clumsy, inapt, maladroit, unaccomplished, unskilful, unskilled), neumešan, nespretan (awkward, clumsy, gawky, left handed, maladroit). (various references)

Turkish

sakar (awkward, butterfingered, clumsy, gawky, heavy-handed, left handed, maladroit, oaf, sacchar-, ungainly), kullanışsız (awkward, disabled, impracticable, impractical, incommodious, unadaptable, unpractical, unwieldy, unworkable, useless), elverişsiz (disabled, disadvantageous, inadequate, incapable, inconvenient, ineligible, insusceptible, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfit, unpropitious, unsuitable, unsuited), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng (artless, clumsy, unskilful, unworkmanlike). (various references)

Welsh

anhylaw (evil, unskillful, unwieldy). (various references)

Misspellings

"UNHANDY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anhand, Dunhenda, unchancy, unhandily, unhardy, unrandy, Uthany. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: unhand.

-2 letters: handy.

-3 letters: hand, undy, yaud, yuan.

-4 letters: and, any, dah, day, duh, dun, had, hay, hun, nah, nan, nay, nun, yah.

-5 letters: ad, ah, an, ay, ha, na, nu, uh, un, ya.

+2 letters: unhandily.

+4 letters: unhackneyed.

+5 letters: unhandsomely, unhyphenated.