difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
<adj.all> we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter almost dropped the unwieldy parcel
hard to control
<adj.all> a difficult child an unmanageable situation
difficult to solve or alleviate
<adj.all> uncontrollable pain
incapable of being controlled or managed
<adj.all> uncontrollable children an uncorrectable habit
Software engineering is intended to replace disorganized methods of software-writing that have led to chaotic, unmanageable and failure-prone programs for large computers.
However, by encouraging acquisitions of foreign-owned companies, they left many domestic producers with unmanageable debt burdens. Two companies controlled by O&Y, GW Utilities and Gulf Canada Resources, own a total of 63.5 per cent of Home Oil.
But with the imposition of a bit of military discipline it is being turned into a more effective retail fighting machine. Like fellow clothing groups Storehouse, Next and Burton, Sears had become bloated and unmanageable in the late 1980s.
Ten thousand trucks a day rumble through its caverns and, on present growth, it will become unmanageable within a decade.
Burnett said the off-duty pilot, identified as Dennis Fitch, found the airplane nearly unmanageable since the tail engine apparently threw wreckage through the airplane's hydraulic systems.
It became unmanageable after 1960, when heroin had to be dispensed to more than 1,000 users of the drug.
"The oil is unmanageable," said Jim Hayden, the state's cleanup coordinator. "It's just immense.
Earnings growth was self-sustaining until the ever-growing accumulation of companies became unmanageable.
Syrian unemployment stands at 20 per cent and is rising; there are serious infrastructural inadequacies, particularly in power generation; and it has an unmanageable 3.8 per cent birth rate, one of the highest in the developing world.
The unpredictable, unmanageable nature of the debates seemed to concern Vice President Bush and his Republican camp more than it troubled Dukakis.
In a painful turn of events for Macy, creditors and trade suppliers now widely regard Chapter 11 as the big retailer's best means of coping with unmanageable debt and a badly slumping business.
As sugar exports represent 75% of Cuban foreign-exchange revenues, Cuba's already desperate economic situation would become totally unmanageable.
But cumbersome as the process of tax record-keeping may be, experts on the subject say it need not be totally unmanageable.