Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wieldsome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wield-some
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"[…] 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 […]"
"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."

Etymology

From wield + -some.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more wieldsome (comparative) most wieldsome (superlative)

Derived Forms

unwieldsome

Synonyms

wieldy manageable

Antonyms

unwieldsome

Questions

What does wieldsome mean?: Characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.
Where does wieldsome come from?: From wield + -some.

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