lumbering

Other forms of lumbering

plural

lumberings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lumbering

What does lumbering mean?

lumbering means "the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lumbering?

lumbering has 3 syllables: lum-be-ring. The stress falls on "lum". In IPA it is /ˈlʌmbɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for lumbering?

Close synonyms include heavy, ponderous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lumbering a common word?

lumbering is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.