cumbersomeness

1. 1.

   trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

   “the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano”

   Synonymsawkwardnessunwieldiness

   Broadertroublesomeness

Other forms of cumbersomeness

plural

cumbersomenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cumbersomeness

What does cumbersomeness mean?

cumbersomeness means "trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape".

How many syllables are in cumbersomeness?

cumbersomeness has 5 syllables: cum-ber-so-me-ness. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for cumbersomeness?

Close synonyms include awkwardness, unwieldiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cumbersomeness a common word?

cumbersomeness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.