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Come across mineral with spiky tip that's awkward to handle
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cumbersome
Word definitions for cumbersome in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Cumbersome " is a song by Seven Mary Three and the lead single from their breakthrough album, American Standard . It was originally included on their independently released debut, Churn , in 1994. The single was released in 1996 and became the band's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous. 2 Not easily managed or handled; awkward. 3 Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cumbersome \cum"ber*some\ (k?m"b?r-s?m), a. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. --Sir. P. Sidney. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. He holds them ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from cumber (v.) + -some (1). Meaning "unwieldy, hard to carry" is from 1590s. Related: Cumbersomely ; cumbersomeness .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ On each occasion, though, the upward journey took longer, the years and events making the burden more cumbersome . rather ▪ Previously, large drums would have to be lifted and paint poured into the much ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing" [syn: cumbrous ] not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome ...
Usage examples of cumbersome.
By the time the cumbersome Artoo and Threepio make it down the slope, Biggs and Windy are climbing all over their big brother.
It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.
The cumbersome, handcrafted books had been the salvation of the First Generation.
Getting me sealed in was cumbersome, as the straps had to be let out and then tightened to allow for the Mother Thing, and neither Peewee nor I had bare hands.
Even out in naked space, where veteran spinnerets wore cumbersome suits and moved awkwardly along tether lines, Tolly Mune chose mobility and form-fitting skinthins.
Government had become interested, and so it had waxed cumbersome, and been both over- and under-planned.
The crisp silence of the seashore when absolute calm prevails is as different from the strained, sodden, padded silence of the jungle as the savour of olives from the raw insipidity of white of egg, for the cumbersome mantle of leafage is the surest stifler of noise, the truest cherisher of silence.
It could be cut open with a thermic lance, but the apparatus was cumbersome and the heat would destroy all non-fireproof contents.
To follow him it was necessary for the heavy, cumbersome apes to make a wide detour, and Sheeta, too, who hated water.
Though some of my colleagues may find this approach cumbersome, it will help the less specialized readers share in the archeological experiences and processes that many of us take for granted.
If true, the Bedaux expedition must have been the most expensive and cumbersome cover operation ever mounted and Bedaux himself must go down as one of the most inept spies in history.
The cumbersome bliaut and chemise of rich royal blue velvet were as heavy as the dread weighting her shoulders.
Milisant chuckled as she shrugged out of her cumbersome bliaut and chemise.
Lugos, Avilas, Sepulvedas, and families who had been traveling for several days, stopping at intervening ranches, coming along slowly on horseback or in the cumbersome carretas drawn by oxen.
Maia hauled packages, struggled with the cumbersome Musseli accounting system, then faced the scrutiny of a hairsplitting freight-mistress.