large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy 笨重的;难使用的;难处理的 cumbersome diving suits. 笨重的潜水服。 ■slow or complicated and therefore inefficient 棘手的;麻烦的;累赘的 organizations with cumbersome hierarchical structures. 等级体系臃肿的组织。
派生 cumbersomely adverb cumbersomeness noun 语源
late Middle English (in the sense 'difficult to get through'): from cumber + -some