Definitions
not elegant or graceful in expression
Word origin
From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent.
Used in a sentence
“Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.”
“The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.”
“A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Awkward to handle”10 letters
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