Cumbersome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy.
  • adj. Troublesome or onerous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.
  • adj. Not easily managed or handled; awkward
  • adj. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
  • adj. Not easily managed.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Burdensome; troublesome; embarrassing; vexatious: as, “cumbersome obedience,”
  • Inconvenient; awkward; unwieldy; unmanageable; not easily borne or managed: as, a cumbersome load; a cumbersome machine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
  • adj. not elegant or graceful in expression
    • Equivalent
    unmanageable    unwieldy    infelicitous   
    Form
    cumbersomely    cumbersomeness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    embarrassing    vexatious    cumbrous    hindering    burdensome   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unwieldy    bulky    time-consuming    burdensome    ungainly   
     
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