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Graceless vs Lumbering - What's the difference?

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Graceless is a related term of lumbering.


As adjectives the difference between graceless and lumbering

is that graceless is without grace while lumbering is clumsy or awkward.

As a noun lumbering is

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

graceless

English

Adjective

(head)
  • without grace

    • Synonyms

    * clumsy

    Antonyms

    * graceful

    lumbering

    English

    Noun

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

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clumsy or awkward.
  • Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=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.}}