Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with or full of bumps: a bumpy country road.
- adj. Marked by bumps and jolts; rough: a bumpy flight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having or marked by bumps; having a surface marked by bumps or protuberances.
Wiktionary
- adj. rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- adj. covered with or full of bumps
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- adj. covered with or full of bumps
Examples
“Baglio Segesta and Tenute Margana, Segesta You definitely need a 4x4 as your hire car to stay at this pair of agriturismos: they're a couple of miles from the nearest road up a track for which the word bumpy is totally inadequate.”
“Not rutted as in bumpy, rather one long trough in which I have been comfortably ensconced.”
“Toms was surprised by the number of putts players made because he thought the greens were bumpy from the soft conditions.”
“I think we see prospects -- although we understand that we're into perhaps what some call the bumpy landing, we think we see some prospects for long-sustained growth with low rates of inflation.”
“But I expect a short-term bumpy ride for Google's stock price until at least October.”
“The route was really bumpy from the Irish sea meeting the Atlantic Sea (the locals say that they don't get along well).”
“We're very realistic about the short-term bumpy road ahead of us and are proactively preparing ourselves for the future.”
“So the flight was nice and bumpy, which is my favorite.”
“The project has been in the works for nearly two decades, and Dr. Ting and his team of collaborators from 16 countries are hoping for a smooth ascent on Friday after years of what could only be described as a bumpy ride.”
“Cola brown with a tan head that is probably best described as bumpy, the beer has a sweet aroma that suggests dark fruit and sugar.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bumpy’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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Assorted animals
red-handed howler, big bend slider, false smooth snake, nightcrawler, soybean cyst nema..., jaw worm, neglected worm li..., spiny-headed worm, thorny-headed worm, decorator crab, pleasing poison frog, red-eared slider ... and 129 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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bum phrases/words
how bum is used
bumbag, bum-barrel, bum-beating, bum-blade, bum-boy, bum-brusher, bum cleavage, bum-creeper, bum-dagger, bum-delighting, bum-fluff, bum-fodder and 104 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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textures
rocky, smooth, slimy, bumpy, sharp, silky, grainy, flaky, ridged, rugged, cracked
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words which are common but i am not f...
acquest, acquaint, acknowledge, urge, dodge, mitigation, basis, pledge, fulfill, fraction, infraction, deprive and 15 more...
Tweets
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deinonychus Also a species of jellyfish, Stellamedusa ventana. Feb 11, 2012