cumbersome
About 2.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
- adjective Not easily managed or handled; awkward or clumsy.
Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
- adjective Hard, difficult, and demanding to handle or get around with.
A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
- adjective Inert, lumbering, or slow in movement.
Similar words
cumbrous clumsy unwieldy awkward infelicitous inept unmanageable inapt ill-chosen burdensome
Often followed by
and to for in than process procedure as procedures
Word family
cumbersomely cumbersomeness cumbersomenesses
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