The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumbrous \Cum"brous\ (k?m"br?s), a.
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Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.
--Swift.That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively.
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Giving trouble; vexatious. [Obs.]
A clud of cumbrous gnats.
--Spenser. -- Cum"brous*ly, adv. -- Cum"brous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being cumbrous.
Usage examples of "cumbrousness".
Never in his life had he felt so light, free, however illusorily, from that heaving, viscous, fudgy torso, with its cumbrousness, its demands, its noises, and its smells.
Despite the seeming cumbrousness of these explanations, they came finally to supersede all others in my mind-largely because of the greater weakness of any rival theory.