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lumpen
CIDE DICTIONARY
lumpen, adj.
mentally sluggish. [WordNet 1.5]
lumpen, n.
- same as lumpenproletariat. [PJC]
- The European eelpout; -- called also
lumper . [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
lumpen
abject, abominable, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, arrant, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, atrocious, available, baggy, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blobby, blowzy, blurred, blurry, boorish, careless, chaotic, characterless, cheesy, chintzy, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, confused, contemptible, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dilapidated, dirty, disengaged, disgusting, disorderly, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, execrable, fallow, farmerish, featureless, flagrant, formless, foul, free, from the sticks, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, fuzzy, grave, gross, grubby, hayseed, hazy, heinous, hick, hicky, hobnailed, idle, in rags, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, informal, inurbane, jobless, kaleidoscopic, leisure, leisured, little, loose, loutish, low, low-down, lumpish, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, misty, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, nondescript, obnoxious, obscure, odious, off, off duty, off work, orderless, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, paltry, petty, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, reptilian, rube, ruinous, scabby, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shapeless, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, small, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, unclear, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undefined, unemployable, unemployed, unkempt, unmentionable, unneat, unoccupied, unordered, unorganized, unpolished, unrefined, unsightly, untidy, up-country, vague, vile, wretched, yokel, yokelishFor further exploring for "lumpen" in Webster Dictionary Online