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cumbersome Definition

cum·ber·some (kumbər səm)

adjective

hard to handle or deal with as because of size, weight, or many parts; burdensome; unwieldy; clumsy

cumbersome Related Forms
cum·ber·somely adverb cum·ber·some·ness noun
cumbersome Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • find: Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Agree 8. I find the website very cumbersome to use.
  • make: Users have an expectation of the standby time without making the handset too cumbersome with a large battery.

Infinitive complement

  • carry: It is unlikely they would have taken their laptops before as they are too cumbersome to carry all day long.
  • move: They were far too cumbersome to move from one place to another.
  • use: Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Agree 8. I find the website very cumbersome to use.

Modifies a noun

  • overboot: This triple boot has an integral gaiter and heat retaining inner sole which makes cumbersome overboots redundant.
  • bureaucracy: This is more likely to meet the needs of companies than a cumbersome central bureaucracy.
  • affair: Negotiating A lasting effect of the Communist era has been that negotiations can still be cumbersome affairs.
  • task: The ability to correct these mistakes does not need to be a cumbersome task.
  • procedure: Most of these occurred in the cumbersome randomisation procedure.
  • process: The DTI's cumbersome process has already delayed decisions.

Modifying Another Word

  • unnecessarily: To display a complete dynamic model here would be unnecessarily cumbersome.
  • somewhat: For example: All this might seem somewhat cumbersome.
  • rather: It can also be rather cumbersome to suddenly have to move a piano from its outside location.
  • too: Users have an expectation of the standby time without making the handset too cumbersome with a large battery.
  • extremely: The thing I miss is the number keypad, I find typing numbers in using the numbers at the top extremely cumbersome!
  • slightly: In the meantime, apologies for the slightly cumbersome ordering process!

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: All in all the processes seem more cumbersome than in the UK.
  • prove: But the system has proved cumbersome, complex and slow.
  • become: Making provisions for them from your limited salary becomes cumbersome.
cumbersome Quotes

To what a cumbersome unwieldiness And burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it in proportion, Give it a diet, made it feed upon That which love worst endures, discretion.

—Donne,John

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