Cumbrous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CUMBROUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• hindering, obstructing
• awkward because of size, weight, or height
• Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
• Giving trouble; vexatious.
• difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
• large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy
• slow or complicated and therefore inefficient
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• unwieldy

Words related to CUMBROUS

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Words that contain CUMBROUS

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How to use CUMBROUS in a sentence

• But it is clear that under Alexander the phalanx was not the cumbrous, unwieldy body which it was at Cynoscephate and Pydna.
• A cumbrous, or heavy, or pedantic historian will never be read, even if his learning be praised by all the critics of Germany.
• A few of the cumbrous and unmanageable engines of the day were brought to the spot, but no water could be obtained.
• One miserable consequence of the cumbrous method was, that there was no certainty at any hour of some essential commodity not falling short.
• The man was now busy with it all, in a slow, cumbrous way.
• Raikes threw open the cumbrous volume, and ran a practised eye and finger down some three or four successive columns of entries.
• The cumbrous machine gave a leap forward, like a scared greyhound, as Ralph jerked the throttle open.
• But if the souls live so long in heaven and hell without their flesh, why need they ever resume it? The cumbrous machinery of the scheme seems superfluous and unmeaning.
• Being not cumbrous for transport, it is of invaluable service to settlers and farmers in far remote districts.
• Could anything be simpler? And yet there are those who say that the system of money exchange in China is both cumbrous and exasperating.
• Heywood, I had charge of the post-office, keeping the accounts, which were then cumbrous, and I made the returns once in three months.
• The colonies were more cumbrous, and opinion when expressed was necessarily representative.
• In a single round Montagu had utterly thrashed, and stricken to the earth, and forced to beg for mercy, his cumbrous and brutal opponent.
• A heavy quadrangle of stables is part of the plan, is very cumbrous, and standing higher than the house, is ready to overwhelm it.
• The cumbrous organisation of Grand Divisions was abolished.
• There was a frantic rush of men and boys, some with cumbrous fire-caps on their heads, and putting on their coats as they ran.
• The boats were furnished with long, cumbrous sweeps, yet not a whit too heavy, since numbers of them snapped with the vigorous strokes of the rowers during the trip.
• Certainly such cumbrous, awkward looking animals, he said, could be no match for our Texas horses.
• With an amazing rapidity in their movements, their desires, their plans, their fancies, their ideas, they are cumbrous in speech.
• Near a sort of style, guarding the entrance to the churchyard, rose an immense pile of buildings, cumbrous and uncouth.

Similar words containing CUMBROU without suffix s

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