Cumbersome has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Systems in which the rules are based on usage, such as languages or customary law, are condemned to become absurd, cumbersome and contradictory, since every time a small error slips into one of their usages, it is integrated into the rules, by definition, for eternity. The more users are ignorant, the more systems degrade rapidly. English, poorly used by millions of people, natives or not, for centuries, is an example of the degradation of a system at terminal stage, no longer presenting any logic, neither in its syntax, nor its grammar, nor its vocabulary or its pronunciation. Similarly, with customary rights becoming too cumbersome and incomprehensible, the states which rely on them tend to switch to prescriptive law. | |
| 2. | English is like a gated community; access is possible but cumbersome. | |
| 3. | Government red tape has made the process very cumbersome and hard to understand. | |
| 4. | It was cumbersome. | |
| 5. | Our equipment is very cumbersome. |