Portable vs Cumbersome - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between portable and cumbersome

is that portable is able to be carried or easily moved while cumbersome is burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.

is a portable toilet; a self-contained outhouse.

(en adjective)

Able to be carried or easily moved.

(computing) Of software, able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.

* hand-portable * man-portable * portableness * portability

(en noun)

A portable toilet; a self-contained outhouse.

Any temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school.

(video games) A hand-held video gaming device.

(computing) a portable computer

* (portable toilet ): portable toilet, port-a-john, porta-kybo, portaloo, porta-potty, port-a-san, port-o-let, sani-privy, turdis

(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