Cumbrous

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  • adjective. Cumbersome.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Burdensome; hindering or obstructing; rendering action difficult or toilsome; clogging; cumbersome.
  • Causing trouble or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  • Difficult to use; characterized by unwieldiness or clumsiness; ungainly; clumsy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
  • adjective. Giving trouble; vexatious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
  • adjective. Giving trouble; vexatious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
  • Word Usage
    "He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors."
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