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Definition of Cumbrous
1. Adjective. Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight. "Cumbrous protective clothing"
Definition of Cumbrous
1. a. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
Definition of Cumbrous
1. Adjective. Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cumbrous
1. unwieldy [adj] - See also: unwieldy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumbrous
Literary usage of Cumbrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"... she ran up-stairs to the unfrequented guest-room; she wept in terror, her body
a pale arc as she knelt beside a cumbrous black-walnut bed, ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... but as that would be, to say the least, cumbrous, it is satisfactory to know
that we can effect our purpose with a much smaller apparatus. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Procedure was extraordinarily complicated and cumbrous. It was not until the end
of the fifteenth century that such elementary principles as the right of ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1866)
"... part of the signet as compared with the whole pomp and grandeur of a full-blown
alderman clad in civic robes, and carried in a cumbrous civic coach. ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The pole which they carried was to help the cumbrous coach of their master out
of the numerous sloughs on the northern and western high-roads. ..."
6. The Works of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, Richard Kenner Crallé (1851)
"If it do not, it will prove, in practice, to be, not a constitution, but a cumbrous
and useless machine, which must be speedily superseded and laid aside, ..."
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