cumbersome
adj/ˈkʌmbəsəm/UK/ˈkʌmbɚsəm/US
Etymology
From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent.
- inherited from cumbyrsum
Definitions
Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag
Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
Not easily managed or handled
Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
- Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
- The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.
Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
- A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
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Inert, lumbering, slow in movement.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA