cumbrous

cumbrous
    adj 1: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or
           weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous
           protective clothing" [syn: {cumbersome}, {cumbrous}]
    

Cumbrous \Cum"brous\ (k?m"br?s), a.
   1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving
      to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
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            He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.  --Swift.
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            That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures
            English composition so extensively.   --De Quincey.
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   2. Giving trouble; vexatious. [Obs.]
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            A clud of cumbrous gnats.             --Spenser.
      -- {Cum"brous*ly}, adv. -- {Cum"brous*ness}, n.
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44 Moby Thesaurus words for "cumbrous":
      Latinate, awkward, bombastic, bulky, burdensome, clogging, clumsy,
      cramped, cumbersome, elephantine, encumbering, forced, formal,
      guinde, halting, hampering, heavy, hindering, hulking, hulky,
      impedimental, impeding, impeditive, incumbent, inkhorn, labored,
      leaden, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy,
      onerous, oppressive, pompous, ponderous, sesquipedalian, stiff,
      stilted, superincumbent, turgid, unhandy, unwieldy