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Weighty vs Cumbrous - What's the difference?

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Weighty is a related term of cumbrous.


As adjectives the difference between weighty and cumbrous

is that weighty is having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body while cumbrous is unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.

weighty

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
  • Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
  • Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

    • cumbrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
    • He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. — Swift.
    That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. — De Quincey.
  • * 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , ch. 1
    • In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing.
  • (obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious.
    • A cloud of cumbrous gnats. — Spenser.