unyieldly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The stiff and unyieldly limb was of no use in Indian raids."
- "Over a million mom-and-pop stores in this unyieldly system use political power to slow the expansion of efficient, large-scale retail businesses. In many cases orders must be delivered by bicycles through back alleys too narrow for cars."
- "Such explosion-proof motors also necessitate the use of explosion-proof cables which are also more costly and heavier and are also more unflexible and unyieldly."
Etymology
From un- + yieldly.
Inflected Forms
more unyieldly (comparative)
most unyieldly (superlative)