cumbrous

Speech parts

1. cumbrous - Adjective

2. cumbrous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.

Giving trouble; vexatious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cumbersome titanic elephantine heavy ungainly extensive BIG massive huge substantial enormous gross mountainous immense impractical
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Antonyms

simple handy useful practical functional lively
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Related terms

cumber obsolete archaic cumbersome encumbered encumbrance

Phrases with the word

less cumbrous

Examples

In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help. Thorstein Veblen

a cumbersome piece of machinery Source: Internet

cumbrous protective clothing Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cumbrian Cumbrian umber Cumbric cumbrously cumbrousness cumbucket