Lumpy
adjective
Having or full of lumps or a uneven surface.
The gravy was rather lumpy.
Often appears as...
- lumpy gravy
- lumpy bed
adjective
Being large and heavy of a kind.
He was a lumpy, awkward teenager.
Often appears as...
- lumpy teenager
- lumpy player
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Having or full of lumps or a uneven surface.
The gravy was rather lumpy.
Often appears as...
- lumpy gravy
- lumpy bed
adjective
Being large and heavy of a kind.
He was a lumpy, awkward teenager.
Often appears as...
- lumpy teenager
- lumpy player
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Related
The word 'lumpy' often describes textures, especially of foods or materials.
She complained about the lumpy mashed potatoes.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Lumpy' usually implies something negative, as smoothness is often preferred.
My new mattress is lumpy and uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Using 'lumpy' can help visualize items with irregular shapes or surfaces.
The lumpy ice made skating difficult.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Related
The word 'lumpy' often describes textures, especially of foods or materials.
She complained about the lumpy mashed potatoes.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Lumpy' usually implies something negative, as smoothness is often preferred.
My new mattress is lumpy and uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Using 'lumpy' can help visualize items with irregular shapes or surfaces.
The lumpy ice made skating difficult.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Related
The word 'lumpy' often describes textures, especially of foods or materials.
She complained about the lumpy mashed potatoes.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Lumpy' usually implies something negative, as smoothness is often preferred.
My new mattress is lumpy and uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Using 'lumpy' can help visualize items with irregular shapes or surfaces.
The lumpy ice made skating difficult.
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Video examples
George Steinmetz: Seeing...
looking at you just use just kind of this lumpy ground and you're kind of lost but you get up and you can understand the shapes of things and for for human elements you just have to go and spend time and talk to people and find things this is a man who let his camels out to graze earlier in the early morning on the edge of the empty quarter and the other way we tried to get pictures with infrared cameras that were
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Watch the Total Solar...
super rare once-in-a-lifetime event that it is here but it makes me wonder if it would be as pretty right because our moon is almost round and the Sun is almost round so we get this really stunning ring phenomenon and on Mars as you mentioned the moons that are sort of Rocky and asteroids like they're lumpy lumpy right they are lumpy and you know
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What causes constipation?...
But occasionally, constipation strikes, a condition that causes a backup in your digestive system. The food you eat can take several days to exit your body. And for many, constipation can become chronic, meaning regularly passing lumpy hard stools accompanied by straining.
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Ethan Zuckerman: How to...
It's all right there. When you start looking at what actually flows on top of these networks, you get a very different picture. You start looking at how the global plane flights move, and you suddenly discover that the world isn't even close to flat. It's extremely lumpy.
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The single biggest...
smoothly putting it away man just have to dump it in a single area so we said let's look at these and so the yellow is the fatty plaque and panel a is a man and you can see it's lumpy bumpy he's got a beer belly in his coronary arteries panel B is the woman very
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Noel Bairey Merz: The...
and panel A is a man. And you can see, it's lumpy bumpy. He's got a beer belly in his coronary arteries. Panel B is the woman, very smooth. She's just laid it down nice and tidy. And if you did that angiogram,
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The Best Dogs of BBC...
so she presumed all was okay initially I thought just another lumpy breasts as people get but then I sort of connected it with the dog with his odd behavior and one day I was looking in the mirror
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How fire shapes...
summarize it's very brief history of a very big subject for aeons natural fire prevailed but it was lumpy in space and time and people come we increase ignition by orders of magnitude and we began
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Dogs Can Smell Cancer PIPE...
so she presumed all was okay initially I thought just another lumpy breasts as people get but then I sort of connected it with the dog with his odd behavior and one day I was looking in the mirror
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The left brain vs. right...
Behold the human brain, it's lumpy landscape visibly split into a left and right side.
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George Steinmetz: Seeing...
looking at you just use just kind of this lumpy ground and you're kind of lost but you get up and you can understand the shapes of things and for for human elements you just have to go and spend time and talk to people and find things this is a man who let his camels out to graze earlier in the early morning on the edge of the empty quarter and the other way we tried to get pictures with infrared cameras that were
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
super rare once-in-a-lifetime event that it is here but it makes me wonder if it would be as pretty right because our moon is almost round and the Sun is almost round so we get this really stunning ring phenomenon and on Mars as you mentioned the moons that are sort of Rocky and asteroids like they're lumpy lumpy right they are lumpy and you know
Video examples
What causes constipation?...
But occasionally, constipation strikes, a condition that causes a backup in your digestive system. The food you eat can take several days to exit your body. And for many, constipation can become chronic, meaning regularly passing lumpy hard stools accompanied by straining.
Video examples
Ethan Zuckerman: How to...
It's all right there. When you start looking at what actually flows on top of these networks, you get a very different picture. You start looking at how the global plane flights move, and you suddenly discover that the world isn't even close to flat. It's extremely lumpy.
Video examples
The single biggest...
smoothly putting it away man just have to dump it in a single area so we said let's look at these and so the yellow is the fatty plaque and panel a is a man and you can see it's lumpy bumpy he's got a beer belly in his coronary arteries panel B is the woman very
Video examples
Noel Bairey Merz: The...
and panel A is a man. And you can see, it's lumpy bumpy. He's got a beer belly in his coronary arteries. Panel B is the woman, very smooth. She's just laid it down nice and tidy. And if you did that angiogram,
Video examples
The Best Dogs of BBC...
so she presumed all was okay initially I thought just another lumpy breasts as people get but then I sort of connected it with the dog with his odd behavior and one day I was looking in the mirror
Video examples
How fire shapes...
summarize it's very brief history of a very big subject for aeons natural fire prevailed but it was lumpy in space and time and people come we increase ignition by orders of magnitude and we began
Video examples
Dogs Can Smell Cancer PIPE...
so she presumed all was okay initially I thought just another lumpy breasts as people get but then I sort of connected it with the dog with his odd behavior and one day I was looking in the mirror
Video examples
The left brain vs. right...
Behold the human brain, it's lumpy landscape visibly split into a left and right side.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Daniel Tammet
English Writer
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
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L'Wren Scott
American Designer
It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Richard Roeper
American Critic
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Dan Phillips
American Designer
Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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Victor LaValle
American Author
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Wilbur Ross
American Businessman
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
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Peggy Johnson
American Businesswoman
Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.
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Daniel Tammet
English Writer
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
Quote examples
L'Wren Scott
American Designer
It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
Quote examples
Richard Roeper
American Critic
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Dan Phillips
American Designer
Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
Quote examples
Victor LaValle
American Author
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Wilbur Ross
American Businessman
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
Quote examples
Peggy Johnson
American Businesswoman
Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.
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