cumbersome

cumbersome
    adj 1: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or
           weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous
           protective clothing" [syn: {cumbersome}, {cumbrous}]
    2: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose
       style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style";
       "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to
       repeat it now?" [syn: {awkward}, {clumsy}, {cumbersome},
       {inapt}, {inept}, {ill-chosen}]
    

cumbersome \cum"ber*some\ (k?m"b?r-s?m), a.
   1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag;
      embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
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            To perform a cumbersome obedience.    --Sir. P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or
      machine.
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            He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering,
            cumbersome, circuitous.               --I. Taylor.
      -- {Cum"ber*some*ly}, adv. -- {Cum"ber*some*ness},n.
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65 Moby Thesaurus words for "cumbersome":
      all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bulky,
      bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish,
      clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contrary, crosswise, cumbrous, elephantine,
      encumbering, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky,
      graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hampering, heavy-handed,
      hulking, hulky, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, impractical,
      inconvenient, incumbent, inelegant, irksome, left-hand,
      left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy,
      maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, onerous, oppressive, perverse,
      ponderous, sloppy, stiff, superincumbent, tiresome, uncouth,
      ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, wearisome