clumpy

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/ˈklʌmpi/

adjective

Forming or tending to form clumps.

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Meanings

adjectiveclumpy (comparative clumpier, superlative clumpiest)

comparative clumpier · superlative clumpiest

  1. Forming or tending to form clumps.

    Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]

    1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
  2. Resembling a clump.
  3. Clompy; with heavy footfalls.

    Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.

    1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie

Origin

From clump + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with clumpy

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Cite this entry
APA

clumpy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clumpy

MLA

“clumpy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clumpy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clumpy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clumpy.

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