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Antonyms for cumbersome
ˈkʌm bər səmcum·ber·some
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term cumbersome.
Wiktionary
cumbersomeadjective
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cumbrouscumbersomeadjective
burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.
Synonyms:
cumbrouscumbersomeadjective
Not easily managed or handled; awkward
Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
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cumbrouscumbersomeadjective
Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with
A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
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cumbrous
Princeton's WordNet
cumbersome, cumbrousadjective
difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
"a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing"
Antonyms:
felicitous, wieldySynonyms:
inept, inapt, cumbrous, awkward, clumsy, ill-chosenawkward, 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?"
Antonyms:
wieldy, felicitousSynonyms:
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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
cumbersomeadjective
Synonyms:
burdensome, troublesome, unwieldy, unmanageable
How to use cumbersome in a sentence?
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.
What we don't want is for people to start an application and drop off because it's really cumbersome, we've had to be creative and change the way we attract and source candidates, but also... once we bring them in, what can we do to ensure that we are retaining them.
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.
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.
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.
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