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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
David Cameron

Meaning of "cumbersome" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CUMBERSOME

Cumber, short for encumber + -some1.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CUMBERSOME

cumbersome  [ˈkʌmbəsəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUMBERSOME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cumbersome is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CUMBERSOME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cumbersome

"Cumbersome" is a song by Seven Mary Three and the lead single from their breakthrough album, American Standard. It was originally included on their independently released debut, Churn, in 1994. The single was released in 1996 and became the band's most popular and well known song. "Cumbersome" reached #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks, #7 on the Modern Rock Tracks, #39 on the Billboard Hot 100, and on their list of Top Mainstream Rock Songs of the Decade, the song ranked in at #5 for 1996. An acoustic version of the song is included on the "Cumbersome" and "Water's Edge" CD singles. A live version appears on Live in the X Lounge IV, released in 2001.

Definition of cumbersome in the English dictionary

The definition of cumbersome in the dictionary is awkward because of size, weight, or shape. Other definition of cumbersome is difficult because of extent or complexity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUMBERSOME


adventuresome
ədˈvɛntʃəsəm
bothersome
ˈbɒðəsəm
fearsome
ˈfɪəsəm
flavoursome
ˈfleɪvəsəm
furthersome
ˈfɜːðəsəm
Hilversum
ˈhɪlvəsəm
humorsome
ˈhjuːməsəm
humoursome
ˈhjuːməsəm
laboursome
ˈleɪbəsəm
lumbersome
ˈlʌmbəsəm
shuddersome
ˈʃʌdəsəm
slumbersome
ˈslʌmbəsəm
timorsome
ˈtɪməsəm
tiresome
ˈtaɪəsəm
torturesome
ˈtɔːtʃəsəm
venturesome
ˈvɛntʃəsəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUMBERSOME

cumbent
cumber
cumberbund
cumberer
Cumberland
Cumberland sauce
cumberless
cumberment
Cumbernauld
cumbersomely
cumbersomeness
cumbia
cumbrance
Cumbria
Cumbrian
Cumbrian Mountains
cumbrous
cumbrously
cumbrousness
cumbungi

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUMBERSOME

awsome
burdensome
centrosome
chromosome
darksome
delightsome
foursome
fulsome
gruesome
handsome
lonesome
lysosome
sex chromosome
some
threesome
troublesome
twosome
wholesome
winsome
worrisome

Synonyms and antonyms of cumbersome in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CUMBERSOME»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cumbersome» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cumbersome

Translation of «cumbersome» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUMBERSOME

Find out the translation of cumbersome to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cumbersome from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cumbersome» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

笨重的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

voluminoso
570 millions of speakers

English

cumbersome
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बोझिल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرهقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

громоздким
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desajeitado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কষ্টকর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

encombrant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sperrig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

扱いにくい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다루기 어려운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cumbersome
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cồng kềnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிக்கலான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अवजड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hantal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingombrante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kłopotliwe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

громіздким
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greoaie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσκίνητη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omslagtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

besvärlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tungvint
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cumbersome

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUMBERSOME»

The term «cumbersome» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.157 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUMBERSOME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cumbersome

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4 QUOTES WITH «CUMBERSOME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cumbersome.
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Benigno Aquino III
Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
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David Cameron
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
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Lawrence Lessig
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
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Aaron Levie
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUMBERSOME»

Discover the use of cumbersome in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cumbersome and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Whittling the Cumbersome
Whittling the Cumbersome is a multi-genre literary exploration of the diversity and beauty---both human and geographic---that adorn Canada's Yukon Territory.
Michael Ross Lockett, 2007
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Wow! Words: Building Children's Powerful Oral Vocabularies
Here's What It Means adjective: heavy or difficult to move Synonyms—They have nearly the same meaning. awkward uncomfortable bulky unmanageable heavy Forms of cumbersome to Share with 5s cumbersomely (adverb) encumber (verb)  ...
Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz, 2011
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The conduct of Lord Bhatia: 5th report of session 2010-11
Q218 Lord Irvine of Lairg: And it is not very difficult, is it, there is nothing cumbersome about giving dates and distances of actual journeys and claiming a specified mileage amount and working out what the figure is? There is nothing difficult or ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Committee for Privileges and Conduct, Stationery Office (Great Britain), 2010
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
God guard us all, and guide us to our last Home thro' the Briars of this cumbersome Life. Howell, Letters, 1L 53. 2. Inconvenient; awkward; unwieldy; unmanageable; not easily borne or managed: as, a cumbersome load ; a cumbersome ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
God guard us all, and guide us to our last Home thro' the Briars of this cumbersome Life. Howell, Letters, U. 53. 2. Inconvenient ; awkward ; unwieldy ; unmanageable; not easily borne or managed: as, a cumbersome load; a cumbersome ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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Means-Tested Programs: Determining Financial Eligibility Is ...
These works are now made available through an environmentally friendly, print-on-demand basis, using only what is necessary to meet the required demands of an interested public.
BiblioBazaar, United States Government Accountability, 2011
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Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of ...
_ _ _ , , _ - Sharps, model 1870 .... -. 20 .... --do ....................... -- Heavy, cumbersome, and complicated. . -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -July - . - Remington, model 1870 -- 9-0 .... - -do ........................ -. Mpre powerful ejector; gun -sling swivel ...
United States. Army. Ordnance Dept, 1873
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Telling the Difference
Cumbersome. Crayfish out of water—doomed undoubtedly by going missing from my son's bedroom aquarium, crawled out somehow, desperate, and willing to perish escaping the name imposed by an observant six-year-old boy still ...
Paul Watsky, 2010
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International Economic Integration: Integration schemes
7. CMEA. Effective. but. cumbersome. political. economy. M. Marrese. This chapter addresses five questions. First, what are the preferences upon which the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) is constructed?1 The most influential ...
Miroslav N. Jovanović, 1998
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Human capital opportunities to improve executive agencies' ...
It is widely recognized both within government and the private sector that the federal hiring process is lengthy and cumbersome and hampers agencies' ability to hire the people they need to achieve their agency goals and missions. Numerous ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUMBERSOME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cumbersome is used in the context of the following news items.
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Employer permitted to use “cumbersome” two-page sick leave …
The union argued that the medical form was simply too cumbersome and bureaucratic. The employer noted that in simple cases, the physician ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»
2
Barclays fires Antony Jenkins as chief
... that Barclays had become too bureaucratic and it had 375 management committees that made decision making “cumbersome”. He promised ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
3
The Verdict on Charter Schools?
... an easy way of liberating inventive teachers from the burdens of staid classroom routines, bland textbooks, and cumbersome union contracts. «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
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Samsung Galaxy Note 5 rumors: Alleged 3D rendering of phablet …
In line with this, the phablet is expected to sport a thin dimension but won't be cumbersome. However, making it look good forfeits the ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»
5
I played 'Minecraft' with Microsoft's HoloLens
Similar to Kinect, this type of motion control can be a little cumbersome. Sometimes HoloLens doesn't notice my finger, or it fails to track my ... «Engadget, Jul 15»
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Rubbish is blight of our otherwise wonderful city
The small black boxes currently handed out are cumbersome and, once full, are not the easiest things to move. Once you manoeuvre them to ... «The Argus, Jul 15»
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Congress OKs new ID cards for all veterans
Buchanan argued that practice is at best cumbersome and at worst unsafe, given the personal information included on those official documents ... «Military Times, Jul 15»
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This bill promises to speed up drug approvals so much that it's …
It is cumbersome and long, and anything we can do to shorten it is desirable,” said Elliott Antman, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
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Brothers embodies the best of siblinghood when it breaks your control
It is about two brothers and everything that brotherhood entails, with a story and a cumbersome system of control that intertwines to seamlessly ... «A.V. Club DC, Jul 15»
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Irish ancestry records dating back 300 years available online
Until now, the process has been logistically cumbersome and expensive but that is set to change as the entire collection of Catholic parish ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

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