Cumbrous

Definition: Cumbrous

Cumbrous

Adjective

1. Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cumbrous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Cumbrous

Arrangement

Phrase: "In vast cumbrous array".

Gravity

Adjective: weighty; weighing. Verb: heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.

Hindrance

In the way of, unfavorable; onerous, burdensome; cumbrous, cumbersome; obtrusive.

Inexpedience

Clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky; unmanageable; (impracticable); impedient; (in the way).

Pain

Ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.

Crosswords: Cumbrous

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Albanian

i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, rude, shambling, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy), тежък (dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), обременителен (burdensome, cumbersome, onerous). (various references)

Czech

tìžkopádný (clumsy, cumbersome, dull, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy going, heavy-handed, inarticulate, lumpish, unwieldy). (various references)

Dutch

omslachtig (complicated, cumbersome). (various references)

French

compliqué (cumbersome), complexe (cumbersome), embarrassant. (various references)

German

lästig (aggravating, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, burdensomely, importunate, importunately, incommodious, incommodiously, inconvenient, inconveniently, irksome, irritating, maddening, onerous, onerously, tiresome, troublesome, undesirable, vexatious, vexing, worrisome). (various references)

Greek 

βαρύσ (beefy, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged, weighty), μπελαλήδικοσ, φορτικόσ (burdensome, cumbersome, importunate, obtrusive, pressing), δυσμετακίνητοσ (cumbersome). (various references)

Hungarian

fáradságos (arduous, cumbersome, hard, laborious, painful, stiff, tough, troublesome). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重苦しい (awkward, gloomy, heavy, leaden, oppressive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもくるしい (awkward, gloomy, heavy, leaden, oppressive). (various references)

Pig Latin

umbrouscay

Portuguese

pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, drab, elephantine, gloomy, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, logy, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), incómodo (ailment, annoyance, annoying, awkward, bumbling, cumbersome, discomfort, dreadful, intrusive, left-handed, meddler, muff, nagging, nuisance, pesky, plaguesome, ragtime, rush, shrill, thorn, tiresome, trouble, troublesome, uncomfortable, unhandy, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, vexing, worrisome), embaraçoso (awkward, cloggy, cumbersome, embarrassing, muff, puzzling, straitened). (various references)

Romanian

stânjenitor (cumbersome, disturbing), împovãrãtor (burdensome, cumbersome, onerous). (various references)

Russian 

нескладный (cumbersome, doggerel, gangling, muff, oafish, three-cornered, unwieldy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezgrapan (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, gangling, gauche, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy). (various references)

Swedish

tung (burdensome, cumbersome, grievous, hard, heavy, hefty, onerous, ponderous, stodgy, weighty), ohanterlig (cumbersome, unmanageable, unwieldy), hindersam (cumbersome), besvärlig (annoying, awkward, bothersome, cumbersome, difficult, incommodious, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguy, sticky, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, warm, worrisome). (various references)

Turkish

külfetli (burdensome, cumbersome, inconvenient, onerous, troublesome), hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

c�"ng kềnh (cloggy, cumbersome), ngổn ngang (cumbersome), l� m vướng nặng nề (cumbersome). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cumbrous": cumbrously, cumbrousness, cumbrousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cumbrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Combretum, Cumbraes, cumerous, Kombruk, umbrous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: brumous.

-2 letters: crumbs, mucors, mucous, mucros.

-3 letters: combs, corms, crumb, curbs, mucor, mucro, mucus, rubus, scour, scrub, scrum, umbos.

-4 letters: bros, bums, burs, cobs, comb, corm, cors, crus, cubs, curb, curs, mobs, mocs, mors, orbs, orcs, ours, robs, rocs, roms, rubs, rums, scum, sorb, sour, sumo, umbo, urbs, urus.

-5 letters: bos, bro, bum, bur, bus.

+2 letters: cumbrously.

+3 letters: embouchures.

+4 letters: cumbrousness, microtubules, rambunctious.