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单词 lumpen
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lumpen

1 of 2

adjective

lum·​pen ˈlu̇m-pən How to pronounce lumpen (audio) ˈləm- How to pronounce lumpen (audio)
1
: of or relating to dispossessed and uprooted individuals cut off from the economic and social class with which they might normally be identified
lumpen proletariat
lumpen intellectuals
2
: plebeian sense 2

lumpen

2 of 2

noun

plural lumpen also lumpens
: a member of the crude and uneducated lowest class of society

Synonyms

Adjective

  • baseborn
  • common
  • humble
  • ignoble
  • inferior
  • low
  • low-life
  • lowborn
  • lower-class
  • lowly
  • mean
  • plebeian
  • prole
  • proletarian
  • unwashed
  • vulgar
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Example Sentences

Adjective a kind of music that has traditionally appealed to the lumpen segment of the musical audience
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late. New York Times, 20 June 2022 Then the judges booted her for wearing a lumpen quilt skirt accessorized with a blow-up-doll boyfriend. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2022 Tye Sheridan gives a somewhat lumpen performance as the author’s stand-in, an aspiring writer whose family background is funky, to say the least. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022 The films of Sean Baker celebrate lumpen characters and communities that subsist within the cracks of America’s neoliberal landscape. Erik Morse, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021 Indeed, the miniatures — lumpen clay armchairs and occasional tables that Valle arranges and rearranges inside shoebox versions of their ultimate destinations — are closer to dollhouse furniture than to showpiece renderings. New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021 Some collectors are leaning further into technology by amassing digital artworks, while other sets of buyers are coping by prizing ceramics, with their fragile, lumpen tactility. Kelly Crow, WSJ, 6 July 2021 Other labels are riffing on the shoe’s lumpen shape, and playing with proportion and puff. Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2021 It’s made of diabase traprock, which contains iron that causes the cliffs to look lumpen and rusty in the wrong light, precise and resplendent in the right one. Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

German Lumpenproletariat degraded section of the proletariat, from Lump contemptible person (from Lumpen rags) + Proletariat

First Known Use

Adjective

1936, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1941, in the meaning defined above

lumpen

adjective

as in proletarian
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank a kind of music that has traditionally appealed to the lumpen segment of the musical audience

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • proletarian
  • prole
  • low
  • unwashed
  • plebeian
  • vulgar
  • ignoble
  • lowly
  • humble
  • inferior
  • lowborn
  • bourgeois
  • baseborn
  • low-life
  • poor
  • lower-class
  • common
  • mean
  • middle-class
  • plain
  • déclassé
  • working-class
  • simple
  • downscale
  • down-market

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • aristocratic
  • grand
  • high
  • patrician
  • genteel
  • noble
  • lofty
  • gentle
  • highborn
  • great
  • upper-crust
  • upper-class
  • blue-blooded
  • highbred
  • wellborn
  • prominent
  • illustrious
  • eminent
  • notable
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