Synonyms for lumbering
lum·ber·ing

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1. lumberingadjective

   the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber

   Antonyms:
   light-footed

2. heavy, lumbering, ponderousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, with child(p), sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, heavy(p), threatening, grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, heavy, arduous, big(a), labored, punishing, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

   Antonyms:
   light-footed

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. lumberingadjective

   Synonyms:
   trudging, moving slowly

2. lumberingadjective

   Synonyms:
   cumbrous, cumbersome, clumsy, awkward, unwieldy

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1. lumberingadjective

   Synonyms:
   unwieldy, ponderous, cumbersome, ungraceful

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1. List of paraphrases for "lumbering":

   logging, forestry

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   Americans know that these dinosaurs should be lumbering off into the sunset – at least Trump was only in Washington for 4 years.