Search Result for "cumbersome":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight;
- Example: "a cumbersome piece of machinery"
- Example: "cumbrous protective clothing"
[syn: cumbersome, cumbrous]
2. not elegant or graceful in expression;
- Example: "an awkward prose style"
- Example: "a clumsy apology"
- Example: "his cumbersome writing style"
- Example: "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
[syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
cumbersome \cum"ber*some\ (k?m"b?r-s?m), a. 1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. [1913 Webster] To perform a cumbersome obedience. --Sir. P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. [1913 Webster] He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous. --I. Taylor. -- Cum"ber*some*ly, adv. -- Cum"ber*some*ness,n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "cumbersome": all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contrary, crosswise, cumbrous, elephantine, encumbering, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hampering, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, impractical, inconvenient, incumbent, inelegant, irksome, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, onerous, oppressive, perverse, ponderous, sloppy, stiff, superincumbent, tiresome, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, wearisome
