- cumbrousness
- noun see cumbrous
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
cumbrousness
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Cumbrousness — Cumbrous Cum brous (k?m br?s), a. 1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging. [1913 Webster] He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. Swift. [1913 Webster] That cumbrousand unwieldy style… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cumbrousness — See cumbrously. * * * … Universalium
cumbrousness — noun The state or quality of being cumbrous … Wiktionary
cumbrousness — cum·brous·ness … English syllables
cumbrousness — noun ( es) : the quality or state of being cumbrous … Useful english dictionary
cumbrous — adjective Date: 15th century cumbersome Synonyms: see heavy • cumbrously adverb • cumbrousness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
cumbrous — cumbrously, adv. cumbrousness, n. /kum breuhs/, adj. cumbersome. [1325 75; ME cumberous. See CUMBER, OUS] * * * … Universalium
bad taste — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness,… … Moby Thesaurus
barbarism — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony,… … Moby Thesaurus
cacophony — Synonyms and related words: Babel, Gothicism, agitation, atonalism, atonality, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bedlam, bluster, bombasticness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacology, chaos, clinker, clumsiness, coarseness, commotion, confusion of… … Moby Thesaurus
