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lumbering adjective he was a lumbering bear of a man CLUMSY awkward, heavy-footed, slow, blundering, bumbling, inept, maladroit, uncoordinated, ungainly, ungraceful, gauche, lumpish, hulking, ponderous; informal clodhopping. ANTONYMS nimble, agile.