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lumbering

lumbering noun: the act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.

Noun

lumbering (countable and uncountable, plural lumberings)

  1. The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
    • Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster
  2. (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.

Adjective

lumbering (comparative more lumbering, superlative most lumbering)

  1. Clumsy or awkward.
    • I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic
  2. Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
    • The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55

lumbering meaning in Malayalam

lumbering in Malayalam

awkward, clumsy, heavy-footed
വിലക്ഷണമായി വലിഞ്ഞിഴഞ്ഞു നടക്കുന്ന, ചാതുര്യരഹിതമായ, അവലക്ഷണമായ, വിലക്ഷണമായ, അടുക്കും മുറയുമില്ലാത്ത, വികൃതം

Forms of lumbering

Noun
plurallumberings
Adjective
comparativemore lumbering
superlativemost lumbering

Words formed from lumbering

Phrases with lumbering

Questions about lumbering

What does lumbering mean?
Lumbering means the act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
What is lumbering in Malayalam?
Lumbering in Malayalam is വിലക്ഷണമായി വലിഞ്ഞിഴഞ്ഞു നടക്കുന്ന, ചാതുര്യരഹിതമായ, അവലക്ഷണമായ. See Lumbering meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is lumbering?
Lumbering can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of lumbering?
The plural of lumbering is lumberings.

Words near lumbering in the dictionary

  1. lumberdom
  2. lumbered
  3. lumbered with
  4. lumberer
  5. lumberers
  6. lumbering
  7. lumbering with
  8. lumberingly
  9. lumberingness
  10. lumberings
  11. lumberjack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lumbering (page history and authors); lumbering (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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