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Lumpen

//ˈlʌmpən// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to social outcasts.

    "A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]"

  2. 2
    Lump-like. not-comparable

    "[About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema."

  3. 3
    Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
  4. 4
    Plebeian.
Adjective
  1. 1
    mentally sluggish wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the lumpenproletariat.

    "In Sydorenko's memorable words: "Our ideals as 'lumpens' are: to find a cozy place, to eat well, to multiply and to die peacefully. A 'lumpen' does not have a nationality, nor does he have a fatherland. Nor conscience. He remains beyond politics and morality.""

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy ambitransitive, rare

    "They had chicken soup with the matzo meal balls a little lumpened by hurry, challah, roast chicken, kasha, honey-cake."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.

Etymology 2

Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.

Etymology 3

From lump + -en (adjectival suffix).

Etymology 4

From lump + -en (verbal suffix).

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