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lumpy
CIDE DICTIONARY
lumpy, a.
Full of lumps, or small compact masses; as, a lumpy bed; a lumpy batch of dough. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lumpy, adj. (lumpier, lumpiest)
1 full of or covered with lumps.
2 (of water) cut up by the wind into small waves.
1 full of or covered with lumps.
2 (of water) cut up by the wind into small waves.
Derivative
lumpily adv. lumpiness n.
THESAURUS
lumpy
awkward, bulky, bumpy, caked, cakey, chunky, clabbered, clotted, clumsy, coagulated, congealed, crude, cumbersome, cumbrous, curded, curdled, elephantine, gelatinized, gnarled, gnarly, grainy, granular, grumous, hulking, hulky, incrassate, inspissate, inspissated, jelled, jellied, knobbly, knobby, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, massive, massy, nodose, nodular, ponderous, raw, rough, roughhewn, rude, studded, thickened, undressed, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unpolished, unwieldyROGET THESAURUS
lumpy
Gravity
N gravity, gravitation, weight, heaviness, specific gravity, pondorosity, pressure, load, burden, burthen, ballast, counterpoise, lump of, mass of, weight of, lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion, weighing, ponderation, trutination, weights, avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight, grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod, gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram, nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram, balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge, spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance, postal scale, baby scale, statics, weighty, weighing, heavy as lead, ponderous, ponderable, lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome, cumbrous, unwieldy, massive, incumbent, superincumbent.For further exploring for "lumpy" in Webster Dictionary Online