CLUMPED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

clumped

verb

Definition of clumped next

past tense of clump

as in shuffled

to move heavily or clumsily a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots

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Recent Examples of clumped Her ’60s clumped lashes and coiffed hair, for example, are still highly referenced today. —

Essence, 26 Mar. 2026 Dimorphos, also a rubble pile, likely formed from debris that clumped together after being shed by Didymos. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026 These areas mimic a natural desert oasis environment, where trees are clumped together and left to grow naturally, producing fruit and nourishing the local wildlife. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026 The other layers of the cloud, where material is less densely clumped but temperatures are warmer, is where most of the methanimine seems to be forming. —

Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 16 Feb. 2026 Venus, Mercury, and Saturn will be clumped together just above the west horizon, the publication said, before setting an hour after sunset. —

Joshua Bessex, Sacbee.com, 31 Jan. 2026 Individually Quick Frozen, vegetables are flash-frozen in single layers rather than clumped together. —

Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026 Scientists can study this map to see how dark matter has clumped up over billions of years. —

CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026 The tree branches are pretty clumped together, versus having lots of individual limbs to bend. —

Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025

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For weeks, Isaiah Mosley shuffled into the morning chaos of the Miami criminal courthouse.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
Born from the embers of the eighties band Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, led by the singer and guitarist Amelia Fletcher, shuffled forward with her riffy, effervescent playing style, gradually growing more sophisticated across four LPs and an EP, without any loss of buoyancy.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026