Cumbrous vs Bulky - What's the difference?
cumbrous | bulky | Related terms |
Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , ch. 1
(obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious.
Being large in size, mass, or volume.
Unwieldy
(bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Cumbrous is a related term of bulky.
As adjectives the difference between cumbrous and bulky
is that cumbrous is unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome while bulky is being large in size, mass, or volume.cumbrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. — Swift.
- That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. — De Quincey.
- In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing.
- A cloud of cumbrous gnats. — Spenser.