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词汇 cumbersome
释义 cumbersome
adjective
uk /ˈkʌm.bə.səm/ us /ˈkʌm.bɚ.səm/
awkward because of being large, heavy, or not effective: 笨重的;累赘的;低效的
cumbersome equipment笨重的设备
cumbersome bureaucracy繁琐的官僚体制
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

weighing more than normal
heavyWow, this suitcase is really heavy.
weightyThe shelves were full of large, oversized dictionaries and other weighty volumes.
weigh a tonMy old laptop weighs a ton compared to this new table.
super-heavyThey sell a midsize SUV, but their latest SUV is super-heavy.
ultra-heavyShe bought an ultra-heavy motorcycle for long-distance rides.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing difficulties for oneself or others
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be a tall orderidiom
be asking for troubleidiom
be your own worst enemyidiom
bother someone with something
catch
dig
make it difficult for someone to do something
obduracy
open a can of worms
overburden
pitchfork someone into something
sand
shoot
subject someone/something to something
sucker punch
swamp
tall
throw sand in the gearsidiom
wrong-foot

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Thick, dense and heavy

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cumbersomely

cumbersome | American Dictionary


cumbersome
adjective
us/ˈkʌm·bər·səm/
difficult to do or manage and taking a lot of time and effort:
Critics say that the process for amending the Constitution is cumbersome, but others defend it.

Examples of cumbersome


cumbersome
Analytically comparing these expressions with the solutions for stochastic prices proves to be cumbersome.
The book is unfortunately marred by technical and editing problems-repetition, grammatical slips, stylistically cumbersome passages, and weak internal organization of some chapters.
This was a cumbersome process and made more difficult as the drugs were listed exactly as recorded on the coroner's certificate.
To compute the correlation of higher moments, for example squared and absolute returns as a proxy for the volatility, is a more cumbersome task.
Southern lawmakers designed highly cumbersome procedures by which soldiers could apply for, receive, and file ballots.
An extended comparative study of language support for generic programming 185 cumbersome.
Yet, even if knowledge concerning abnormal behaviour is available, exhaustive description may be sometimes too cumbersome compared with a model of normal behaviour.
The chosen topological landmarks must occur frequently enough to specify routes accurately, but not so frequently that the plan becomes cumbersome or complicated.
This approach allows faster initial deployment, but maintenance of the application becomes cumbersome with a growing number of cases.
This is problematic, as it is cumbersome to teach a phenomenon when the data needs to be prefaced with a caveat.
However, the major drawback of immunoblot analysis is that the procedure is relatively cumbersome and requires an appropriately equipped laboratory.
The "two nonattending physicians" approach, however, is both cumbersome and at odds with professional standards.
Indeed, although such a formula is easy to create for a small number of tasks, it can become cumbersome if there are many tasks3.
When using these techniques for sound composition, the composer must also possess skills in physics to even begin; the concepts quickly become cumbersome and misleading.
Besides being incidental rather than central, such problems are endemic to the cumbersome nature of the material itself.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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