Meaning of cumbersome in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious

• Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.

  Example: Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.

• Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.

  Example: A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.

• Inert, lumbering, slow in movement