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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cumbersome
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ 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 smaller spray jug - rather cumbersome.
▪ The end result was a delicious but rather cumbersome sandwich.
▪ We were surprised to find the saw so easy to control, as it seemed rather cumbersome at first.
▪ By now I was thinking that our simple request for shelter was turning into a rather cumbersome affair.
▪ As this model stands it is rather cumbersome even with the simplifying assumption of a constant required rate of return.
too
▪ It was too cumbersome to hang on a peg in the hall with the others.
▪ Although the success rate is high, about 22 percent of apnea sufferers find the mask too cumbersome and discontinue the therapy.
▪ This meeting could be too cumbersome to achieve anything.
▪ It would not be too cumbersome to give such machines explicitly, but I shall not bother to do this here.
▪ The tripod-mounted binoculars are too cumbersome and too powerful for this purpose.
▪ These administrative units are too cumbersome.
▪ Seen as potential rivals to his Dalek creations, Terry Nation's Mechonoids proved too cumbersome to move easily around the studios.
▪ It is a little too cumbersome to be charming, although that bassline becomes increasingly frightening.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I used to have one of those old sewing machines, but it was too cumbersome.
▪ Leroy bitterly opposed the plan for being cumbersome and costly.
▪ McMahon wore a cumbersome brace on his right leg.
▪ The room was dominated by an enormous, cumbersome leather armchair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A shovel had been too slow and cumbersome.
▪ And they do away with cumbersome expense claims and time-consuming paperwork.
▪ The end result was a delicious but rather cumbersome sandwich.
▪ The engineers said their workplace was confining and their furniture was cumbersome.
▪ They went back to natural oestrogen, a cumbersome and expensive product, harvested from the urine of pregnant mares.
▪ Try dowsing without rods: it's much less cumbersome.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cumbersome

cumbersome \cum"ber*some\ (k?m"b?r-s?m), a.

  1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

    To perform a cumbersome obedience.
    --Sir. P. Sidney.

  2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.

    He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous.
    --I. Taylor. -- Cum"ber*some*ly, adv. -- Cum"ber*some*ness,n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cumbersome

late 14c., from cumber (v.) + -some (1). Meaning "unwieldy, hard to carry" is from 1590s. Related: Cumbersomely; cumbersomeness.

Wiktionary
cumbersome

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.

WordNet
cumbersome

  1. adj. difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing" [syn: cumbrous]

  2. 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?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]

Wikipedia
Cumbersome

"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 most popular and well known song. "Cumbersome" reached #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks, #7 on the Modern Rock Tracks, #39 on the Billboard Hot 100, and on their list of Top Mainstream Rock Songs of the Decade, the song ranked in at #5 for 1996. An acoustic version of the song is included on the "Cumbersome" and " Water's Edge" CD singles. A live version appears on Live in the X Lounge IV, released in 2001.

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.