Synonyms for cumbersome
ˈkʌm bər səmcum·ber·some

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1. cumbersomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous

2. cumbersomeadjective

   burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous

3. cumbersomeadjective

   Not easily managed or handled; awkward

   Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous

4. cumbersomeadjective

   Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with

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

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous

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1. cumbersome, cumbrousadjective

   difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

   "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing"

   Synonyms:
   inept, inapt, cumbrous, awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen

   Antonyms:
   felicitous, wieldy

2. awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosenadjective

   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?"

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous, unenviable, feckless, ungainly, ill-chosen, tactless, fumbling, clumsy, inapt, gawky, awkward, bunglesome, bungling, inept, incompetent, unwieldy, embarrassing, clunky, ill at ease(p), uneasy, sticky

   Antonyms:
   wieldy, felicitous

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1. cumbersomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   burdensome, embarrassing, troublesome, vexatious, cumbrous

2. cumbersomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   unwieldy, unmanageable, clumsy, awkward, inconvenient

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1. cumbersomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   burdensome, troublesome, unwieldy, unmanageable

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1. List of paraphrases for "cumbersome":

   burdensome, heavy, unwieldy, onerous, tedious, complicated, bulky, clumsy, ponderous, laborious, time-consuming, unmanageable, heavy-handed, complex, awkward, difficult, inconvenient, long-winded

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1. Annette Hosoi:

   When the animal is out of the water, blubber can be heavy and cumbersome.

2. Canadian Solar:

   The policy framework needs to be improved vastly. Documentation is cumbersome. Land acquisition is time-consuming. Securing debt funding in India and financial closures is a tough task.

3. Melanie Lutenbacher:

   Breastfeeding is time consuming, often cumbersome for some employed women, and still not intentionally supported in many work sites, less time at work provides more opportunity for a woman to continue her breastfeeding effort in her own personal space ; more time at work means a greater need for work time, space and privacy to pump and then a place to store her milk.

4. Jasper Graham:

   All of it is useful information ... even if it is tremendously burdensome and cumbersome.

5. Esther Hicks:

   If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.