cumbersome
cumbersome
Definition
cum·ber·some (kum′bər səm)
adjective
hard to handle or deal with as because of size, weight, or many parts; burdensome; unwieldy; clumsy
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
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.
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