what does the word cumbersome mean?

Answer 1

1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. Synonyms at heavy.
2. Troublesome or onerous.

1. cumbersome - difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing"
cumbrous
unmanageable, unwieldy - difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"
2. cumbersome - not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
ill-chosen, inapt, inept, clumsy, awkward
infelicitous - not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"

Answer 2

Definition Of Cumbersome

Answer 3

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what does the word cumbersome mean?

Answer 4

word cumbersome

Answer 5

It is an adjective that means hard to deal with, hard to handle, tough...

Moving the giant couch up the spiral staircase was cumbersome.

Answer 6

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cumbersome

Basically it just means troublesome as it is mostly used today.

Answer 7

bulky, difficult to handle

Answer 8

Awkward and/or heavy - hard to bear or carry.

Answer 9

IT COMES FROM THE BRITISH LANGUAGE AND MEANS BULKY

Answer 10

Unwieldy, hard to handle.