lumpy

Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.

Adjective

  1. Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.
    • I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.
    • The film makes fun of the lumpiest and palest set of tourists ever to carry plastic shoulder bags. It makes fun of an upwardly mobile hotel manager, married to a lecherous blonde. - 1976 May 20, Richard Eder, “Film:...
    • The universe appears to be slightly lumpier, with bigger and more hot and cold spots in the northern half of the sky as seen from Earth than toward the south, for example. And there is a large, unexplained cool spot in...

    Coordinate Terms: bumpy

  2. Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy.

Origin

Etymology tree English lump Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English lumpy From lump + -y.

Forms

lumpier lumpiest

Derived

lumpily lumpiness lumpy dick lumpy jaw lumpy jumper lumpy skin disease