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Word entry · 10 letters

cumbersome

Best crossword clue

"Awkward to handle"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈkʌmbəsəm/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bceemmorsuStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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