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adjective

cumbersome adj.

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. "To perform a cumbersome obedience."

Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. "He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous."

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Etymology of 'Cumbersome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cumbersome" Quotes from Famous Books

... been dimly conscious of this, always insisting on wearing heavy and cumbersome garments, quilted so strongly as to defy the thrust of a dagger. A monarch who goes about in habitual fear of assassination betrays his knowledge that he has failed to win the love or veneration ...

— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

... artist, Professor Ingraham, and five ambitious young climbers from Seattle. We were led by the veteran mountaineer and guide Van Trump, of Yelm, who many years before guided General Stevens in his memorable ascent, and later Mr. Bailey, of Oakland. With a cumbersome abundance of campstools and blankets we set out from Seattle, traveling by rail as far as Yelm Prairie, on the Tacoma and Oregon road. Here we made our first camp and arranged with Mr. Longmire, a farmer in the neighborhood, for pack ...

— Steep Trails • John Muir

... the mighty machine; walked once more across its broad metal top. Here and there they now saw the ends of those quartz cylinders. Once more they entered the Solarite, through the air lock, and took off the cumbersome insulating suits. ...

— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell

... July. As we travelled on, amid scenes of truly Alpine grandeur and loveliness, the thought arose to my mind, how little even the much-travelled English dream of the wealth of scenery in France! Our cumbersome old diligence carried only French passengers. Nowhere else in Europe does the English tourist find himself more isolated ...

— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... by START III and IV, as nations who claim ownership of nuclear weapons realize ownership has a high cost and marginal payoff. However, progress will be slow due to the immense importance of achieving symmetry during nuclear disarmament and the cumbersome and exacting safeguards associated with the disarmament process. Therefore, for the foreseeable future the threat of nuclear war must be addressed even though it will be less likely than before. The spectrum of ...

— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade

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