Bulky vs Cumbersome - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between bulky and cumbersome

is that bulky is being large in size, mass, or volume while cumbersome is burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.

(er)

Being large in size, mass, or volume.

Unwieldy

(bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.

(en adjective)

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.

Not easily managed or handled; awkward.

Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.

Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.

A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.

* See also

* cumbersomely * cumbersomeness

* cumbrous