cumbrous
[ kuhm-bruhs ]
adjective
Origin of cumbrous
1Other words from cumbrous
- cum·brous·ly, adverb
- cum·brous·ness, noun
- non·cum·brous, adjective
- non·cum·brous·ly, adverb
- non·cum·brous·ness, noun
- un·cum·brous, adjective
- un·cum·brous·ly, adverb
- un·cum·brous·ness, noun
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How to use cumbrous in a sentence
They were resting on their cumbrous belongings, strange groups, unkempt and half dressed.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonMay not the construction be better taken as a simple, though to our ears cumbrous, inversion of, So I heard them not?
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerThe drawer shuffled to the other windows and opened the shutters with a cumbrous slipping of bolts.
The Rake's Progress | Marjorie BowenIts forms are too cumbrous for regularly recurring expressions, subjected at once to the laws of metre and rhyme.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftHere and there about the yard, also, stand cumbrous cribs for fodder, at which two cows can feed at once.
The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
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