encumbered
Definition
- Adjective:
- Burdened or weighed down: Describes something or someone that is loaded with a heavy or excessive amount of things, making movement or action difficult.
- Hindered or impeded: Refers to a state where progress, function, or freedom is restricted by a load, obligation, or complication.
Usage
The adjective "encumbered" describes a state of being burdened. It is often used with the preposition "with" or "by" to indicate the source of the burden. - It can describe a physical burden, like carrying heavy objects. - It can describe a non-physical burden, such as debt, responsibilities, or legal restrictions.
Examples
Physical Burden:
- The movers were encumbered with heavy furniture.
- An encumbered hiker struggles to keep up with the group.
Non-Physical Burden:
- The company was encumbered by debt.
- Her inheritance was an encumbered estate, tied up with legal claims.
Advanced Usage
- "Encumbered with": This is the most common construction, specifying the nature of the burden.
- The report was encumbered with unnecessary technical details.
- "Encumbered by": Often used interchangeably with "with," sometimes emphasizing the agent of the burden.
- The project was encumbered by bureaucratic delays.
Variants and Related Words
- Encumber (verb): To burden or weigh down; to hinder or impede the function or action of.
- He did not want to encumber himself with a mortgage.
- Encumbrance (noun): A burden or impediment.
- The old regulations were seen as an encumbrance to innovation.
- Unencumbered (adjective): Free from burden or hindrance; not weighed down.
- She traveled light and unencumbered.
Synonyms
- Burdened: Loaded or weighed down.
- Laden: Heavily loaded.
- Hampered: Hindered or impeded.
- Saddled with: Burdened with (an unwanted responsibility).
Antonyms
- Unencumbered: Free from burden.
- Unburdened: Relieved of a load or worry.
- Unfettered: Released from restraint.
Adjective
- loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
- a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels- A.J.Liebling
- a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack
- an encumbered estate
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