cumbersome

Speech parts

1. cumbersome - Adjective

2. cumbersome - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.

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Examples

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in. Kristi Noem

There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit. Neil Armstrong

The two transports had sneaked up from the south in the first graying flush of dawn, their cumbersome mass cutting smoothly through the water whose still greater mass bore them silently, themselves s gray as the dawn which camouflaged them. James Jones

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Lawrence Lessig

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes. Carlos Ghosn

Courtesy is cumbersome to them that ken it not. Persian Proverb

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