lumbering

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: lum=ber=ing

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, wooden

ROGET 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.