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Lumbering vs Corpulent - What's the difference?

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Lumbering is a related term of corpulent.


As adjectives the difference between lumbering and corpulent

is that lumbering is clumsy or awkward while corpulent is large in body; fat; overweight.

As a noun lumbering

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

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.}}

    corpulent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Large in body; fat; overweight.
  • (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

    • Usage notes

    * In contemporary usage, "corpulent" can designate a range of bodily states, from modest plumpness to significant fatness to extreme obesity.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * corpulence

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----