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lumbering

noun

1 lumbering

The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber.

adjective

1 lumbering

Slow and laborious because of weight:
— Moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot.

synonyms: heavy, ponderous.

Roget 647: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit ... show more

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Christmas tree farming, Latinate, afforestation, all thumbs, ambling, ambulation, arboriculture, awkward, backpacking, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, cautious, circumspect ... show more.

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