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cumbrous

adjective as in cumbersome

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They were resting on their cumbrous belongings, strange groups, unkempt and half dressed.

May not the construction be better taken as a simple, though to our ears cumbrous, inversion of, So I heard them not?

The drawer shuffled to the other windows and opened the shutters with a cumbrous slipping of bolts.

Its forms are too cumbrous for regularly recurring expressions, subjected at once to the laws of metre and rhyme.

Here and there about the yard, also, stand cumbrous cribs for fodder, at which two cows can feed at once.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cumbrous, such as: awkward, bulky, clumsy, heavy, hefty, and ungainly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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