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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lumpen
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat.
▪ The individuality and richness of their lives - given a glance of a chance - mocked such lumpen labels.
▪ These were the days when rock was being shooed out in disgrace, a lumpen confusion of scratched armpits and muddled motives.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lumpen

lumpen \lump"en\ adj. 1. mentally sluggish.

Syn: lumpish, sluggish, unthinking.

lumpen

Lumper \Lump"er\, n. [Cf. Lamper eel.] (Zo["o]l.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.

Wiktionary
lumpen

a. 1 Of or referring to social outcasts. 2 Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat. 3 plebeian

WordNet
lumpen

adj. mentally sluggish [syn: lumpish, unthinking]

Wikipedia
Lumpen

Lumpen can refer to:

  • Lumpen (magazine), an American art and politics magazine
  • Lumpenproletariat, a term in Marxist sociology
  • Lumpenbourgeoisie
  • Swedish slang for military service, adopted by armed forces as a near-formal word
Lumpen (magazine)

Lumpen is an American magazine published since 1991, whose editor-in-chief is Edward Marszewski. The magazine covers topics of local and global politics, art and music and is published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The magazine is often published under themes such as 'makers' or 'comics'.

Usage examples of "lumpen".

Knoxville before being toppled by the usual blow scandal, fed her the questions and gave orders to their cameraman, the aging, overweight hepcat Barney Lumpen, forty-three, who could do all that stuff in his sleep and never listened to the interviews.

He simply lay there, becoming reaccustomed to his lumpen body and his mere humanity.

With a slap, he brought forth a heap of crushed Gitanes, a dirty handkerchief, several matchbooks, a wad of soiled, sea-dampened bills, an assortment of coins of various currencies, and a lumpen piece of yellow metal on a chain.