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lumbering
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lumbering has 1 sense
- lumbering(n = noun.act) Array - the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber; Array is a kind of craft, trade
Adjective lumbering has 1 sense
- lumbering(s = adj.all) heavy, ponderous - slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
CIDE DICTIONARY
lumbering, n.
The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
lumbering
Christmas tree farming, Latinate, afforestation, all thumbs, ambling, ambulation, arboriculture, awkward, backpacking, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cumbersome, cumbrous, deliberate, easy, elephantine, faltering, fingers all thumbs, flagging, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, forced, forest management, forestation, forestry, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gentle, going on foot, graceless, gradual, guinde, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, hulking, hulky, idle, indolent, inelegant, inept, inkhorn, labored, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, legwork, leisurely, limping, logging, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, marching, massive, massy, moderate, oafish, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous, reforestation, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, sesquipedalian, shuffling, silviculture, slack, sloppy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, splay, staggering, stiff, stilted, strolling, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, tree farming, trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unhurried, unwieldy, waddling, walking, woodcraft, woodenROGET THESAURUS
lumbering
Inexpedience
N inexpedience, inexpediency, undesirableness, undesirability, discommodity, impropriety, unfitness, inutility, disadvantage, inexpedient, undesirable, unadvisable, inadvisable, objectionable, inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient, incommodious, discommodious, disadvantageous, inappropriate, unfit, ill-contrived, ill-advised, unsatisfactory, unprofitable, unsubservient, inopportune, out of place, in the wrong place, improper, unseemly, clumsy, awkward, cumbrous, cumbersome, lumbering, unwieldy, hulky, unmanageable, impedient, unnecessary, it will never do.Ugliness
N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.
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