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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUMBROUS

a. 1. Burdensome; troublesome; rendering action difficult or toilsome; oppressive; as a cumbrous weight or charge.
2. Giving trouble; vexatious; as a cloud of cumbrous gnats.
3. Confused; jumbled; obstructing each other; as the cumbrous elements.

CUMBROUSLY

adv. In a cumbrous manner.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CUMBROUS

CUMBROUS Cum "brous (km "brs ), a.

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. [Obs. ] A clud of cumbrous gnats. Spenser. -- Cum "brous *ly, adv. -- Cum "brous *ness, n.

New American Oxford Dictionary

cumbrous

cum brous |ˈkəmbrəs ˈkəmbrəs | ▶adjective literary term for cumbersome. DERIVATIVES cum brous ly adverb, cum brous ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘difficult to get through ’): from cumber + -ous .

Oxford Dictionary

cumbrous

cumbrous |ˈkʌmbrəs | ▶adjective literary term for cumbersome. DERIVATIVES cumbrously adverb, cumbrousness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘difficult to get through ’): from cumber + -ous .

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cumbrous

cum brous /kʌ́mbrəs /形容詞＝cumbersome .