cumbrous
adj/ˈkʌmbɹəs/US
Etymology
From Late Middle English combrous (“causing obstruction; clumsy; obstructed; bothersome, difficult; burdensome, onerous; serious; causing trouble, troublesome; dangerous; immoral; unjust, wrongful; upset”) [and other forms], from komber, kumbre (“distress; destruction”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as cumber + -ous.
- inherited from combrous — “causing obstruction; clumsy; obstructed; bothersome, difficult; burdensome, onerous; serious; causing trouble, troublesome; dangerous; immoral; unjust, wrongful; upset”
Definitions
Unwieldy because of size or weight
Unwieldy because of size or weight; cumbersome.
- Possession's load was grown so great, / He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight: […]
- He therefore came to a ſudden reolution of throvving off thoſe cumbrous ornaments of learning, vvhich, as he imagined, hindered his reception; and vvith no other images than arcs and angles, commenced a man of vvit and jocularity.
Causing hindrance or obstruction.
- But aftervvards, the Gauls ceaſed to moleſt and trouble, and the Romans gave over to fear, ſo ſoon as they vvere paſſed, and eſcaped the rough, cumbrous, and unpaſſable forreſts.
Giving annoyance or trouble
Giving annoyance or trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
- Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong / Life much, bent rather now I may be quit / Faireſt and eaſieſt of this combrous charge, / Which I muſt keep till my appointed day / Of rendring up.
The neighborhood
- neighboraccumber
- neighborcumber
- neighborcumbered
- neighborcumberer
- neighborcumberground
- neighborcumbering
- neighborcumberless
- neighborcumberment
- neighborcumbersome
- neighborcumberworld
- neighborencumber
- neighborencumbered
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cumbrous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA