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. Tiffany Friesen:

   People liked what it stood for, what it meant, we weren't just changing it from Confederate because it was too long or too cumbersome or old-fashioned. We were changing it because it stood for something that we didn't care to uplift. And if we're going to replace it, let's replace it with something we do want to uplift.

2. Boris Pasternak:

   It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

3. Jasper Graham:

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

4. 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.

5. James Comer:

   President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs, the federal government exists to serve the American people and these substantial delays for basic services are unacceptable.