cumbersome.
Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
Meaning & usage
Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
Not easily managed or handled; awkward or clumsy.
Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
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.
Inert, lumbering, or slow in movement.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent.
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