hinderlik adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
moeilik adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
moeilik adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
moeilik adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Bulgarian

3 entries

неудобен adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
обременителен adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
тежък adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

麻煩 /麻烦 adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

笨重 adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
繁瑣 /繁琐 adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
繁重 adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
麻煩 /麻烦 adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

Dutch

4 entries

hinderlijk adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
lastig adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
lastig adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
lastig adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Dzongkha

1 entries

ལྗིད་ཅན adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Finnish

4 entries

hankala adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
hankalakäyttöinen adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
hankalasti käsiteltävä adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
kömpelö adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

French

4 entries

encombrant adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
fastidieux adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)
lent adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)
lourd adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)

Galician

4 entries

aparatoso adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
custoso adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
pesado adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
traballoso adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

German

4 entries

beschwerlich adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
hinderlich, lästig adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
mühsam adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
schwerfällig adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)

Hungarian

4 entries

bumfordi adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
lomha adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)
nehéz adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)
nehézkes adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

Irish

1 entries

anásta adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

Italian

4 entries

complesso adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)
difficile adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)
difficile da usare adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
farraginoso adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Korean

2 entries

불편하다 adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
주체스럽다 adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Macedonian

3 entries

неу́добен adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
о́бемен adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
те́жок adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Māori

1 entries

hīrawerawe adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

uhåndterlig adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

دشوار adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

schwoafalich adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

Polish

4 entries

nieporęczny adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
nieporęczny adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)
niewygodny adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
uciążliwy adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Portuguese

3 entries

desajeitado adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
incómodo adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
incômodo adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Russian

4 entries

громо́здкий adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
грузный adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)
затрудни́тельный adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
неудо́бный adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)

Spanish

4 entries

abultado adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
aparatoso adj (not easily managed or handled; awkward)
cargante adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
dispendioso adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Swedish

1 entries

otymplig adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)

Turkish

4 entries

ağır adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)
hantal adj (inert, lumbering, slow in movement)
külfetli adj (burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous)
zor adj (hard, difficult, demanding to handle)

Sample sentences

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English is like a gated community; access is possible but cumbersome.

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Government red tape has made the process very cumbersome and hard to understand.

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It was cumbersome.

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Systems in which the rules are based on usage, such as languages or customary law, are condemned to become absurd, cumbersome and contradictory, since every time a small error slips into one of their usages, it is integrated into the rules, by definition, for eternity. The more users are ignorant, the more systems degrade rapidly. English, poorly used by millions of people, natives or not, for centuries, is an example of the degradation of a system at terminal stage, no longer presenting any logic, neither in its syntax, nor its grammar, nor its vocabulary or its pronunciation. Similarly, with customary rights becoming too cumbersome and incomprehensible, the states which rely on them tend to switch to prescriptive law.

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