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Definition of Cumbersome

1. Adjective. Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight. "Cumbrous protective clothing"

2. Adjective. Not elegant or graceful in expression. "If the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"

Definition of Cumbersome

1. a. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

Definition of Cumbersome

1. Adjective. burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous. ¹

2. Adjective. Not easily managed or handled; awkward ¹

3. Adjective. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cumbersome

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumbersome

cumbent cumber cumber-ground cumber ground cumberbund cumberbunds cumbered cumberer cumberers cumberground

cumbergrounds cumbering cumberless cumbers cumbersome (current term) cumbersomely cumbersomeness cumbia cumbias cumbrance

cumbrances cumbre cumbrous cumbrously cumbrousness cumbrousnesses cumbuckets

Literary usage of Cumbersome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Confessions of an English Opium-eater ; And, Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"for the sake of avoiding the constant recurrence of a cumbersome periphrasis, the author will take the liberty of giving in the first person. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Memory systems for translating dates into words and memorizing the words which can be re-translated into dates, are so cumbersome that their value is ..."

3. A Treatise on Fraudulent Conveyances and Creditor's Remedies at Law and in by Dewitt Clinton Moore (1908)
"Bulky, cumbersome and ponderous articles.-A manual delivery is unnecessary where the goods or articles are ponderous, bulky, cumbersome, and difficult to ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... like a garment, which is too long, becoming cumbersome und entangling to the wearer. So. .... cumbersome ..."

5. Cases on Constitutional Law: With Notes by James Bradley Thayer (1895)
"... required which are cumbersome, dilatory, and expensive, yet, if no discrimination against any one be made and no substantial right be impaired by them, ..."

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