cumbersome
/ˈkʌmbɚsəm/ adjective C1- Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
- Not easily managed or handled; awkward or clumsy. · Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
- Hard, difficult, and demanding to handle or get around with. · A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
- Inert, lumbering, or slow in movement.
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