lumpen
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lum·pen 1
(lŭm′pən, lo͝om′-)adj.
1. Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields.
2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
3. Vulgar or common; plebeian: "Popular novelists and their mass readership remain a despised lumpen minority" (Leslie Fiedler).
n.
1. (used with a pl. verb) The lumpenproletariat.
2. (used with a sing. verb) A member of the lumpenproletariat.
[From German Lumpenproletariat, the lowest section of the proletariat; see lumpenproletariat.]
lum·pen 2
(lŭm′pən)adj.
Having lumps or a lumpy appearance: "glancing with reluctant distaste at the shrouded, lumpen shape on the floor" (P.D. James).
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lumpen
(ˈlʌmpən)adj
informal stupid or unthinking
[from German Lump vagabond, influenced in meaning by Lumpen rag, as in lumpenproletariat]
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lum•pen
(ˈlʌm pən, ˈlʊm-)adj.
1. of or pertaining to disfranchised and uprooted individuals or groups, esp. those who have lost status: the lumpen bourgeoisie.
n. 2. a lumpen individual or group.
[1945–50; extracted from lumpenproletariat]
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