lumpy

adjective

1. 1

   Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.

   I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.

   The film makes fun of the lumpiest and palest set of tourists ever to carry plastic shoulder bags. It makes fun of an upwardly mobile hotel manager, married to a lecherous blonde.

   The universe appears to be slightly lumpier, with bigger and more hot and cold spots in the northern half of the sky as seen from Earth than toward the south, for example. And there is a large, unexplained cool spot in the northern hemisphere.

   With the bathers, especially, bodies harden into things. Torsos like clay. Buttocks like pears. More classically proportioned figures could be paired, on the same page, with squatter, lumpier piles of flesh.

2. 2

   Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy.

Forms

comparative

lumpier

superlative

lumpiest