English-Spanish translations for cumbersome

• cargante
• pesado
  Será pesado, difícil, pero debemos asumir el reto. It is cumbersome, it is difficult, but we must rise to the challenge.
  Se sigue hablando de procedimientos pesados y se me pide que los racionalice. People keep talking about cumbersome procedures and asking me to streamline them.
  Pero el propio Convenio Marpol es -como usted ya sabe, señora Comisaria- un buque muy pesado, que apenas tiene margen de maniobra. However, MARPOL is itself a cumbersome vessel, as the Commissioner knows, which offers little room for manoeuvre.

Definition of cumbersome

• Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious
• Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with
• Inert, lumbering, slow in movement

Examples

• Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
• A slaves work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.

Related words

• cumber
• cucumber
• encumbered
• encumber
• Cumberland
• cumbered
• unencumbered
• disencumber
• cumbersomeness