lumpy

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If your lawn is kind of lumpy, the only way to make it smooth is to fill in the low spots with top soil, bringing them up to the high spots.

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  1. adjective Covered or filled with lumps.
  2. adjective Thickset or cumbersome.
  3. adjective Exhibiting short jumbled waves; choppy: lumpy seas; a lumpy channel.

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  • Her nose was lumpy, her mouth large and ugly, her hands short and stubby. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • The settee on which she was sitting was lumpy, and yet it was comfortable. —  The Alington Inheritance - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 31
  • The advancing cloud was knotted and lumpy, and one section of it looked very much like a naked woman rushing straight down out of the sky at the boat. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • The mattress was lumpy, the room damp, and the garbage smell overpower-ing. —  Analog October, 1966
  • At four o'clock he was still awake; the bed was lumpy, there weren't enough blankets to keep out the cold, his mind was a whirl of ash blondes and missing children, and some damn sadistic church clock punctuated his sleeplessness with clanking chimes every quarter-hour. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
 

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rumple ·  uneven ·  misshapen ·  shapeless ·  puffy ·  fleshy ·  spongy ·  furry ·  downy ·  craggy ·  sodden ·  bumpy

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lumpy:   lumpier
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/ˈləmpi/
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