cumbersome

Adjective Satellite

• difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
  • "a cumbersome piece of machinery"
• not elegant or graceful in expression
  • "his cumbersome writing style"

Adj

• Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
• Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
• Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
• Inert, lumbering, slow in movement.

Examples

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

Synonyms

awkward, clumsy, cumbrous, ill-chosen, inapt, inept, lumpish, unwieldy