cumbersome
Meaning of cumbersome
adjective
- Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious
- Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
- Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
- Inert, lumbering, slow in movement
Information about cumbersome
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Hyphenation of cumbersome
cum-ber-some
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- cumbersome is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
cumbersome synonyms
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Translation of cumbersome
- French: malaisé, malcommode, incommode
- German: mühsam, beschwerlich
- Spanish: incómodo, incómoda, engorroso, engorrosa
- Italian: ingombrante, scomodo
Words that rhyme with cumbersome
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