incumbrous
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare Old French encombros.
Adjective
incumbrous (comparative more incumbrous, superlative most incumbrous)
- (obsolete) cumbersome; troublesome
- 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
- Incumbrous ruin
References
- “incumbrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.