lumpen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʌmpən/

Adjective

lumpen

1. Of or relating to social outcasts.
2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
3. Plebeian.
4. Lump-like.
   • 2000, Joanne Morra, ‎Mark Robson, ‎& Marquard Smith, The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, →ISBN, page 72:

     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.

   • 2001, Adrian Beard, Texts and Contexts: Introducing Literature and Language Study, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 17:

     Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque.

Anagrams

• plenum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumpen/

Verb

lumpen

1. past participle of limpan

Noun

lumpen m (plural lúmpenes)

1. underclass, hoi polloi