wieldsome

English

Etymology

From wield +‎ -some.

Adjective

wieldsome (comparative more wieldsome, superlative most wieldsome)

1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.

   Synonyms: wieldy, manageable

   Antonym: unwieldsome

   • 1565, Arthur Golding, transl., The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia‎^[1], London: William Seres, Book Four, p. 99b:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1902, The State of Corrections: Proceedings, ACA Annual Conferences:

     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.

Derived terms

• unwieldsome