| 单词 | bumpy |
| 释义 | bumpy (once / 7965 pages) adj Bumpy means not smooth, as in covered in lumps and bumps, like a bumpy path that makes your car bounce, or a bumpy road to getting your parents to lend you the car. Anything covered in bumps is bumpy, whether it’s a road, the skin of a toad, or the surface of the birthday cake you made for your brother. It can also describe a ride full of unexpected jolts and bumps: "It was a bumpy journey along the mountain passes in her Jeep." Figuratively, bumpy can also describe a difficult process: "What a bumpy ride that was, getting my visa to travel to China!" WORD FAMILYbumpy: bumpier, bumpiest, bumpily, bumpiness+/bump: bumped, bumper, bumping, bumps, bumpy/bumper: bumpers USAGE EXAMPLESBecause health reform, President Obama’s signature achievement, is stabilizing after a bumpy year. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) But things got bumpy on campus in Norman. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Unless the company ends up with its own quasi-monopoly, grabbing a big chunk of that back for investors may prove a very bumpy road. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1adj covered with or full of bumps a bumpy country road Syn rough, unsmooth having or caused by an irregular surface 2adj causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements Syn|Ant jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough smooth of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence |
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