Cumbersome vs Rigid - What's the difference?
cumbersome | rigid |
Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.
Not easily managed or handled; awkward.
Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
As adjectives the difference between cumbersome and rigid
is that cumbersome is burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous while rigid is rigid.cumbersome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
- A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* cumbersomely * cumbersomenessSynonyms
* cumbrousrigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.