Adjacent Words

Cumbrous definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUMBROUS, a.
1. Burdensome; troublesome; rendering action difficult or toilsome; oppressive; as a cumbrous weight or charge.
2. Giving trouble; vexatious; as a cloud of cumbrous gnats.
3. Confused; jumbled; obstructing each other; as the cumbrous elements.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century cumbersome Synonyms: see heavy • cumbrously adverb • cumbrousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. = CUMBERSOME. Derivatives: cumbrously adv. cumbrousness n. Etymology: CUMBER + -OUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cumbrous Cum"brous (k?m"br?s), a. 1. 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. --De Quincey. 2. Giving trouble; vexatious. [Obs.] A clud of cumbrous gnats. --Spenser. -- Cum"brous*ly, adv. -- Cum"brous*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Burdensome. See cumbersome.

Moby Thesaurus

Latinate, awkward, bombastic, bulky, burdensome, clogging, clumsy, cramped, cumbersome, elephantine, encumbering, forced, formal, guinde, halting, hampering, heavy, hindering, hulking, hulky, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, incumbent, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, onerous, oppressive, pompous, ponderous, sesquipedalian, stiff, stilted, superincumbent, turgid, unhandy, unwieldy