lumpen
/ˈlʌmpən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lump-like.
adj
Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
adj
noun
A member of the lumpenproletariat.
Example Sentences
- "[About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema."
- "This something, which is neither body nor machine but interior and alien to them both, pertains to the 'meat' in Gibson's world insofar as the 'meat' - that useless corporeal remainder discarded by the machine - retains an excess that cannot be reduced to the lumpen mass of fleshy existence."
- "Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the mere lumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg."
- "Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque."
- "a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes."
- "A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]"