| 单词 | cumbersome |
| 释义 | cumbersome (once / 4488 pages) adj You have to wrestle a bit with the longish word cumbersome; it's cumbersome, or kind of long and clumsy, to tumble out in a sentence. It's hard to use it gracefully. A "cumber" is something that slows you down, and though the words aren't related, "lumber" includes big pieces of heavy wood, which might slow down the person carrying them. Moving lumber is cumbersome, because it's a heavy and awkward job. Getting your laundry down the stairs or putting a Rottweiler in the bathtub can be cumbersome too. WORD FAMILYcumbersome: cumbersomely, cumbersomeness USAGE EXAMPLESThe streamlined version was much easier to read, the directions less cumbersome and more direct. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Yet these striking photographs are not served well by the book’s uninspired and cumbersome design. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) The wire was cumbersome, she told the scientists, and difficult to use. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1adj difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight a cumbersome piece of machinery Syn cumbrous unmanageable, unwieldy difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape 2adj not elegant or graceful in expression his cumbersome writing style Syn awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept infelicitous not appropriate in application; defective |
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