Cumbrous
[kʌmbrәs]
Definition
(a.) Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
(a.) Giving trouble; vexatious.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Burdensome, CUMBERSOME.
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Examples
- And with his cumbrous and uneasy action he stiffly offered her his arm. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But Brown's machines were cumbrous, complicated, and difficult to work, and therefore did not come into public use. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- What he might gain by this acquaintance, he could not work out in his slow and cumbrous thoughts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The carts and conveyances of the poor were cumbrous, heavy contrivances, without springs, mostly two-wheel, heavy carts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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