lumpen

American  

[luhm-puhn] / ˈlʌm pən /

adjective

1. of or relating to disfranchised and uprooted individuals or groups, especially those who have lost status.

   the lumpen bourgeoisie.

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noun

1. a lumpen individual or group.

lumpen British  

/ ˈlʌmpən /

adjective

1. informal stupid or unthinking

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Etymology

Origin of lumpen

First recorded in 1945–50; extracted from lumpenproletariat

Example Sentences

To get there, we had to follow the Ukrainian soldiers on foot - within a few paces my boots become lumpen and heavy with thick dirt.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2023

If anything, it is aggressively anti-fun, as if fun itself were just a tatty concept for the lumpen masses who crowd the family’s amusement parks.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

Seeking to impose on others the conformity it enforces in its ranks, articulate only in a boilerplate of ritualized cant, today’s lumpen intelligentsia consists of persons for whom a little learning is delightful.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2020

The film also introduces the Charlie Kaufman type: pasty and disheveled, with bad hair and lumpen bodies and a thin film of flopsweat on the face.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2019

Among German Socialists it is called the "lumpen proletariat," and both for the present and future is looked at with the greatest anxiety.

From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by Walling, William English