Word Meanings - CUMBROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. Swift. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey.

Additional info about word: CUMBROUS

1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. Swift. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey. 2. Giving trouble; vexatious. A clud of cumbrous gnats. Spenser. -- Cum"brous*ly, adv. -- Cum"brous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUMBROUS)

• Bulky
• Huge
• unwieldy
• heavy
• large
• ample
• ponderous
• burly
• cumbrous
• gigantic
• brawny
• massive

Related words: (words related to CUMBROUS)

• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• AMPLENESS
  The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• GIGANTIC
  1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• GIGANTICAL
  Bulky, big. Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• AMPLECTANT
  Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.
• PONDEROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
• MASSIVENESS
  The state or quality of being massive; massiness.
• AMPLEXATION
  An embrace. An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.
• BRAWNY
  Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving. Syn. -- Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic; stalwart; powerful; robust.
• UNWIELDY
  Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• BURLY
  1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• MASSIVE
  In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock , a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock. (more
• AMPLEXICAUL
  Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• CHAMPLEVE
  Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also,
• EXAMPLESS
  Exampleless. B. Jonson.
• HURLY-BURLY
  Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.
• EXAMPLE
  orig., what is taken out of a larger quantity, as a sample, from 1. One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen. 2. That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy. For I have