cumbersome

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkʌmbəsəm/    美 /ˈkʌmbɚsəm/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
    — "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.
  2. Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
    — Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
  3. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
    — A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
  4. Inert, lumbering, slow in movement.

词形变化

more cumbersome comparative most cumbersome superlative

词汇关系

近义词
cumbrous lumpish unwieldy
衍生词
cumbersomely cumbersomeness uncumbersome

词源

From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent.
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