English Dictionary

cumbersome

/ˈkʌmbəsəm/

adj

Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious / Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy. / Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.

Carrying a heavy backpack can be cumbersome for a long hike.

意味（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.

意味（2）

Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.

Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

Inert, lumbering, slow in movement