cumbrous

American  

[kuhm-bruhs] / ˈkʌm brəs /

adjective

1. cumbersome.

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Other Word Forms

• cumbrously adverb
• cumbrousness noun
• noncumbrous adjective
• noncumbrously adverb
• noncumbrousness noun
• uncumbrous adjective
• uncumbrously adverb
• uncumbrousness noun

Etymology

Origin of cumbrous

First recorded in 1325–75, cumbrous is from the Middle English word cumberous. See cumber, -ous

Example Sentences

The Road Home Program, a state program supposed to help rebuild, was cumbrous and slow, and grants often didn’t cover the cost of repairs.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2017

This cumbrous and costly apparatus kept the field to itself for some time.”

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2014

Set in a luxuriant landscape — 11,000 acres of swaying sugar cane, and terrain resembling an upside-down egg carton — is cumbrous industrial equipment for producing spirits.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

John Gielgud, playing Othello at Stratford in 1961, was less happy, complaining that Hall's costumes were "beautiful but cumbrous" and that the elaborate production stalled while Zeffirelli leafed through "his damned press cuttings".

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2010

She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view; her excitement was in the prospect of freedom, of being delivered from the cumbrous struggle between good and bad, heroes and villains.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan