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English
Etymology
From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cumbersome (comparative more cumbersome, superlative most cumbersome)
- Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 54:"You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.
- Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
- Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
- Inert, lumbering, slow in movement
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Translations
burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous
- Afrikaans: hinderlik, moeilik
- Bulgarian: тежък (bg) (težǎk), обременителен (bg) (obremenitelen)
- Dutch: hinderlijk (nl), lastig (nl), moeilijk (nl), moeizaam (nl), zwaar (nl)
- Dzongkha: ལྗིད་ཅན (ljid can)
- Finnish: vaivalloinen (fi), hankala (fi)
- French: encombrant (fr)
- Galician: pesado (gl), custoso, traballoso
- German: hinderlich, lästig, mühsam (de), beschwerlich (de)
- Hungarian: bumfordi (hu)
- Italian: ingombrante (it)
- Korean: 주체스럽다 (jucheseureopda), 불편하다 (ko) (bulpyeonhada)
- Macedonian: те́жок (téžok)
- Maori: hīrawerawe
- Polish: uciążliwy (pl) m
- Portuguese: incómodo (pt) (Portugal), incômodo (pt) (Brazil)
- Russian: обремени́тельный (ru) (obremenítelʹnyj), затрудни́тельный (ru) (zatrudnítelʹnyj), тя́гостный (ru) (tjágostnyj)
- Spanish: pesado (es), cargante (es), penoso (es)
- Swedish: otymplig (sv)
- Turkish: külfetli (tr)
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not easily managed or handled; awkward
- Afrikaans: onhandig, moeilik
- Bulgarian: неудобен (bg) (neudoben)
- Dutch: lastig (nl), moeilijk (nl), moeizaam (nl), onhandig (nl), zwaar (nl), omslachtig (nl)
- Finnish: kömpelö (fi), hankalasti käsiteltävä, hankalakäyttöinen
- Galician: aparatoso
- German: (objects) sperrig (de), (procedure) umständlich (de)
- Hungarian: nehézkes (hu)
- Italian: difficile da usare, macchinoso (it)
- Macedonian: о́бемен (óbemen), неу́добен (neúdoben)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uhåndterlig
- Plautdietsch: schwoafalich
- Polish: nieporęczny (pl) m, niewygodny (pl) m
- Portuguese: desajeitado (pt)
- Russian: громо́здкий (ru) (gromózdkij), неудо́бный (ru) (neudóbnyj)
- Turkish: zor taşınır
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hard, difficult, demanding to handle
inert, lumbering, slow in movement
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