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

His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.

From New York Times

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

Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late.

From New York Times

In its tender, lovingly rendered affect, it’s like an anti-KAWS: unpolished, lumpen, inescapably human.

From New York Times

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