cumbersome

Adjective

cumbersome (comparative more cumbersome, superlative most cumbersome)

1. Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
   • "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 54
2. Not easily managed or handled; awkward or clumsy.
   • Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
   • The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.1958 November, “The Why and the Wherefore: South Eastern & Chatham Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 809
3. Hard, difficult, and demanding to handle or get around with.
   • A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
4. Inert, lumbering, or slow in movement.