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cumbersome

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1 cumbersome

Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight:
— A cumbersome piece of machinery.

synoniem: cumbrous.

Roget 319: weighty; weighing etc. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 706: hindering etc. v.; obstructive, obstruent; impeditive, impedient; intercipient; prophylactic etc. (remedial) 662; impedimentary.    in the way of, ... meer laten zien

Roget 830: causing pain, hurting etc. v.; hurtful etc. (bad) 649; painful; dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, ... meer laten zien

2 cumbersome

Not elegant or graceful in expression:
— His cumbersome writing style.

synoniemen: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept.

Roget 647: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit ... meer laten zien


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contrary, crosswise, cumbrous, elephantine, encumbering, fingers all thumbs ... meer laten zien.

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