Usually means: Difficult to handle or use.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word cumbersome:

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  1. cumbersome: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cumbersome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cumbersome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cumbersome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cumbersome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cumbersome, cumbersome: Wordnik
  7. cumbersome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cumbersome: Wiktionary
  9. cumbersome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cumbersome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cumbersome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cumbersome, cumbersome: Dictionary.com
  13. cumbersome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cumbersome: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cumbersome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cumbersome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cumbersome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cumbersome: Rhymezone
  19. Cumbersome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cumbersome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cumbersome: Free Dictionary
  22. cumbersome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cumbersome: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cumbersome: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cumbersome: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious
▸ adjective:  Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
▸ adjective:  Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
▸ adjective:  Inert, lumbering, slow in movement

Similar:
cumbrous, clumsy, infelicitous, unwieldy, awkward, inept, inapt, unmanageable, ill-chosen, burdensome, more...

Opposite:
lightweight, nimble, agile, manageable, efficient

Types:
awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable, unruly, more...

Phrases:
big and cumbersome, opposite of cumbersome, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, best, old, whole, present, uncertain, vague, unacceptably, heavy, member

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Similar:
cumbrous, clumsy, infelicitous, unwieldy, awkward, inept, inapt, unmanageable, ill-chosen, burdensome, more...

Opposite:
lightweight, nimble, agile, manageable, efficient

Types:
awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable, unruly, more...

Phrases:
big and cumbersome, opposite of cumbersome, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, best, old, whole, present, uncertain, vague, unacceptably, heavy, member

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     taupe,     charcoal,     mustard, more...



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