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What does cumbrous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
  2. (obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious.
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Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process.
In the Middle Ages the cumbrous but powerful crossbow was widely used in continental Europe.
Early European settlers adopted the process, but found less cumbrous methods.
Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets.
Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration.
Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research.

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