Adj. | 1. | ![]() encumbered - 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" |
2. | ![]() unburdened - not burdened with difficulties or responsibilities; "unburdened by an overarching theory"- Alex Inkeles |