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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing..
A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.
His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.
Use cumberworld when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cumberworld means (derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing..
Common synonyms include cumberground.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.
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