Both Uses of
cumbersome
in
Gulliver's Travels
- The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was accustomed to them.†
Chpt 2 *
- Besides the large box in which I was usually carried, the queen ordered a smaller one to be made for me, of about twelve feet square, and ten high, for the convenience of travelling; because the other was somewhat too large for Glumdalclitch's lap, and cumbersome in the coach; it was made by the same artist, whom I directed in the whole contrivance.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(cumbersome) difficult to handle -- especially because of size or shape or weight
or:
not elegant or graceful in expression