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cumbersome, a.|ˈkʌmbəsəm|
[f. cumber v. + -some.]
†1. Of places or ways: Obstructing and impeding motion or progress; full of obstruction; troublesome to pass or get through. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce xiii. 351 Bannokburne, that sa cummyrsum was Of slyk, and depnes for till pas. 1555Fardle Facions ii. xi. 246 Pioners..to make the waye, wher the place is combresome. 1563Golding Cæsar (1565) 120 The Britons call it a Towne, when thei have fortified a combersome wood with a dich, and a rampyre. 1681Cotton Wonders of Peake 55 Though the way be cumbersom, and rough.
†2. Causing trouble, annoyance, or inconvenience; full of trouble; troublesome; wearisome, oppressive. Obs. exc. dial.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 105 Thair names..So cummersum tha ar to put in verss. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 19 A cumbersome Landlord is husbandmans rod. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. x. 111 Cumbersome days..slow, dull and heavy times. 1663Gerbier Counsel 99 A Portch proves often cumbersome, being the receptacle of foul creatures. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xii. 167 ‘It would be sort o cumbersome to tell her.’ 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 38 Better unkind than ower cumbersome.
3. Of material objects: Troublesome from bulk or heaviness; unwieldy, clumsy.
1594Blundevil Exerc. vi. Pref. (ed. 7) 596 The Globe is combersome and not portable. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 390 This tree..is not so combersome as to keepe away the Sunne and the wind. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 400 That cumbersome Luggage of war. 1716Addison Drummer ii. i, Help me off with this cumbersome Cloak. 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 2 At last..the cumbersome waggons gradually got under weigh. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xv, The cumbersome old table with twisted legs.
fig.1660H. More Myst. Godl. To Rdr. 17 A vast heap of humane Inventions, useless and cumbersome Ceremonies. 1768Beattie Minstr. ii. lix, With cumbersome, tho' pompous show. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. ii. (1875) 43 Very cumbersome mode of assisting the memory.
Hence ˈcumbersomely adv.; also ˈcumbersomeness.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 16 Although they be troubled through the combersomnes of men. 1611Cotgr., Molestément, troublesomely, offensively, combersomely. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. Digr. §9 (Contents) Human art acts upon the matter without, cumbersomely or moliminously. 1785Roy in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 430 The cumbersomeness of its weight appeared..objectionable. 1880Scribn. Mag. Feb. 504 The log fence..belonged to the same period of plentifulness, even cumbersomeness, of timber. |