Cumbersome is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CUMBERSOME in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• burdensome
• large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy
• slow or complicated and therefore inefficient
• Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
• Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
• difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
• not elegant or graceful in expression
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• dial; burdensome, troublesome

Words related to CUMBERSOME

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Words that contain CUMBERSOME

cumbersomely23 cumbersomeness22 cumbersomenesse23 cumbersomenesses24

How to use CUMBERSOME in a sentence

• Without doubt the system was slow and cumbersome, but it was a step in the right direction.
• So cumbersome were the signal systems in use that even though they would convey the intelligence desired, the speaking-trumpet or a courier was employed wherever possible.
• His sermons, tho often long and cumbersome, are marked by warmth of fancy and a sublimity of spirit superior to his style.
• But, alas! the way was narrow and dark, the banner was large and cumbersome, while the lady that bore it was nervous and weak.
• Standing the cumbersome things against the wall as the inner door to the lock rolled back, they walked into Eysie territory.
• If they danced it was mostly a cumbersome performance.
• Before his days the art of boiling, though in one sense very simple and primitive indeed, was in another sense very complex, cumbersome, and lengthy.
• The dowager, more cumbersome than ever, dozed on the other side of the hearth.
• There may have been a long gun in that waggon, its movements were so slow and cumbersome.
• The difficulty with such a system is that it rapidly grows cumbersome, requiring the use of so many figures for indicating any number.
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation, however, has found it necessary to extend this division to many of the small-letter groups which become cumbersome.
• They bore her wraps out to the cumbersome vehicle which was to convey her to Lexington, the nearest town which at that time boasted of a railroad.
• But in many cases these organs, instead of being favorable, are injurious or cumbersome until fully developed.
• That they were long drawn out, cumbersome, disjointed and quite without dramatic design has also been indicated.
• Fully expecting to see him fall at every step, Paul followed as fast as the cumbersome rubber pants would permit.
• But along with what was inspiring and direct in Puritanism Bernard Shaw has inherited also some of the things that were cumbersome and traditional.
• Some few doors are, however, provided with a cumbersome wooden lock, operated by means of a square, notched stick that serves as a key.
• My first ungrateful impulse was to get rid of the two cumbersome ladies who had offered to be my companions.
• Sixty years ago the nave was filled with hideous and cumbersome pews, and such work as had been done towards keeping the place in repair was in the worst possible taste.
• Like Dante, Shakespeare has received the perhaps inevitable but still cumbersome honor of being treated like a classical author of antiquity.
• Dignity is a good thing to stand on, but a poor thing to travel with, and Max soon found it the most cumbersome piece of luggage a knight-errant could carry.
• It was hardly a quarter of a minute more before the cumbersome lock of the front door was unfastened, and the door itself pulled imperceptibly ajar.
• This is a very imperfect and cumbersome method, which cannot be employed in our present complicated transactions of buying and selling.
• This gives a quick and strong purchase and does away with cumbersome blocks of the old-fashioned jig.
• Cumbersome junk-like boats flying the Red Cross passed west under full sail.
• He appeared to be carrying something, not exactly heavy, but cumbersome, under his left arm.
• Their trade flourished, they were given better laws, and the machinery of justice was made much less cumbersome than it had been before.
• This causes the whole equipment to be somewhat cumbersome, and unless arranged with great care, and with a variety of devices lately designed, a source of considerable annoyance.
• If the peacock wishes to soar with the eagle, he must first get rid of his cumbersome tail.
• It made things easier, so that he began the practice of piling any light, cumbersome piece of luggage on top.

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