lumbering

lumbering
Synonyms and related words:
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, wooden

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  • Lumbering — Lum ber*ing, n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lumbering — index ponderous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • lumbering — [adj] clumsy, awkward blundering, bovine, bumbling, clodhopping*, clunking, elephantine, gauche, gawky, halting, heavy, heavy footed, hulking, inept, klutzy*, leadfooted*, lumpish, maladroit, overgrown, ponderous, splay, two left feet*, ungainly …   New thesaurus

  • lumbering — lumbering1 [lum′bər iŋ] n. ☆ the work or business of cutting down trees and preparing lumber lumbering2 [lum′bər iŋ] adj. 1. moving heavily, clumsily, or noisily 2. rumbling lumberingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • Lumbering — Lumber Lum ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lumbered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lumbering}.] 1. To heap together in disorder. Stuff lumbered together. Rymer. [1913 Webster] 2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lumbering — adjective he was a lumbering bear of a man Syn: clumsy, awkward, heavy footed, slow, blundering, bumbling, inept, maladroit, uncoordinated, ungainly, ungraceful, gauche, lumpish, hulking, ponderous; informal clodhopping Ant: nimble …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • lumbering — I noun the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber • Hypernyms: ↑trade, ↑craft II adjective slow and laborious because of weight the heavy tread of tired troops moved with a lumbering sag bellied trot …   Useful english dictionary

  • lumbering technician — miško ruošos technikas statusas T sritis profesijos apibrėžtis Technikas, kuris padeda miškininkystės inžinieriui tvarkyti racionalų medienos naudojimą, planuoti miško ruošos darbus ir atlikti kartografavimą. Jis prižiūri miško ruošos ir kitokią… …   Inžinieriai, technikai ir technologai. Trikalbis aiškinamasis žodynėlis

  • lumbering — /lum beuhr ing/, n. the trade or business of cutting and preparing lumber. [1765 75; LUMBER1 + ING1] * * * …   Universalium

  • lumbering — 1. noun The business of felling trees for lumber. 2. adjective a) Clumsy or awkward. b) Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous …   Wiktionary

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