bumpier; bumpiest
1
: having or covered with bumps
2
a
: marked by bumps or jolts
b
: marked by or full of difficulties
Examples of bumpy in a Sentence
The road is very bumpy.
the bumpy skin of a cucumber
The flight was very bumpy.
The road was rough so we had a bumpy ride.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
These bumpy strips will represent the bones.
—Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some anachronistic fruits – such as the weird, bumpy-textured and softball-size Osage orange – were dispersed by ancient megafauna such as giant ground sloths.
—Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Another member of the Mag 7, however, had a bumpy Monday.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bumpy
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“Bumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumpy. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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