different between cumbersome vs extensive
cumbersome
English
Etymology
cumber (“hindrance”) +? -some.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?mb?s?m/
Adjective
cumbersome (comparative more cumbersome, superlative most cumbersome)
- Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious
- Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
- 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.
- Inert, lumbering, slow in movement
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:difficult
Derived terms
- cumbersomely
- cumbersomeness
Synonyms
- cumbrous
- unwieldy
Translations
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extensive
English
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extens?vus, from Latin extensus.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?ks?t?n.s?v/
Adjective
extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)
- having a great extent; covering a large area; vast
- (figuratively) considerable in amount.
- I have done extensive research on the subject.
- Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension
- (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
Derived terms
- extensive property
Related terms
- extend
- extense
- extent
Translations
See also
- intensive
French
Adjective
extensive
- feminine singular of extensif
Latin
Adjective
ext?ns?ve
- vocative masculine singular of ext?ns?vus
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