LUMPY (lumpier, lumpiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: lumpier    , lumpiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumpy mean? 

• LUMPY (adjective)
  The adjective LUMPY has 2 senses:

1. like or containing small sticky lumps

2. having lumps; not smooth and even in texture

  Familiarity information: LUMPY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUMPY (adjective)

Comparative: lumpier   
Superlative: lumpiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like or containing small sticky lumps

Synonyms:

chunky; lumpy

Context example:

the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough

Similar:

unshapely (not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape)

Derivation:

lump (a large piece of something without definite shape)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having lumps; not smooth and even in texture

Context example:

lumpy gravy

Similar:

uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)

Derivation:

lump (a compact mass)

lump (a large piece of something without definite shape)

 Context examples 

Although a small correction, it was enough that — projected to one week later when the collision would otherwise have occurred — MAVEN would miss the lumpy, crater-filled moon by about 2.5 minutes.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A form of ACTINOMYCOSIS characterized by slow-growing inflammatory lesions of the lymph nodes that drain the mouth (lumpy jaw), reddening of the overlying skin, and intraperitoneal abscesses.

(Cervicofacial Actinomycotic Infection, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

The two men came briskly up to the scratch at the call of time, the smith a little lumpy on one side of his head, but with the same good-humoured and yet menacing smile upon his lips.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His heavy-jowled, clean-shaven face expressed ferocity as well as courage, and he stood with his small, blood-shot eyes fixed viciously upon Jim, and his lumpy shoulders stooping a little forwards, like a fierce hound training on a leash.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)