What does lubberly mean?
Lubberly means Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person)..
Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;
a great lubberly boy
"Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."
I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly.
Use lubberly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lubberly means Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person)..
Common synonyms include unskilled, landlubberly, unseamanlike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;
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