Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Find a word or form any language English German Search

lumbering en · ADJ

Meanings

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:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more lumbering	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most lumbering	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Deriveds

lumberingness · lumberingly

lumbering en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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, countable, uncountable) The business of felling trees for lumber.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
lumberings	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (3)

bg дърводобив (the business of felling trees for lumber) · ru лесозагото́вка (the business of felling trees for lumber) · uk лісозаготі́вля (the business of felling trees for lumber)