Synonyms of clumps

clumps 1 of 2

noun

plural of clump

1

as in clusters

a number of things considered as a unit

scattered clumps of houses were visible from the air

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clusters
• batches
• bunches
• arrays
• collections
• groupings
• groups
• lots
• constellations
• assemblages
• sets
• packages
• batteries
• mixtures
• assortments
• clots
• varieties
• blocks
• banks
• bands
• series
• suites
• clutches
• accumulations
• parcels
• aggregates
• knots
• aggregations
• huddles
• jumbles
• the whole kit and caboodle
• agglomerations
• passels
• musters
• conglomerations
• suits
• odds and ends
• runs
• sundries
• hodgepodges
• cycles
• miscellanies

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• units
• items
• entities
• singles

2

as in chunks

a small uneven mass

a clump of dirt

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chunks
• hunks
• wads
• globs
• lumps
• blobs
• clods
• pieces
• gobs
• clots
• knobs
• dollops
• beads
• nubs
• gobbets
• nuggets
• particles
• globules
• drops
• patches
• bits
• nubbles
• chips
• portions
• granules
• crumbs
• blocks
• scraps
• bulks
• bodies
• nubbins
• morsels

clumps

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of clump

as in shuffles

to move heavily or clumsily

a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffles
• stomps
• stumbles
• lumps
• sloughs
• barges
• stumps
• stamps
• pounds
• shambles
• weaves
• lurches
• hauls
• tramps
• flounders
• scuffs
• trudges
• galumphs
• drags
• scuffles
• plods
• slogs
• lumbers
• staggers
• flogs
• flops
• sways
• tromps
• waddles
• reels
• blunders
• totters
• wobbles
• dodders
• teeters
• careens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slides
• glides
• waltzes
• whisks
• drifts
• floats
• hangs
• coasts
• breezes
• hovers
• wafts
• poises

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of clumps

Noun

Protostars are born when patches in vast molecular clouds cool and form clumps, collapsing under their gravity. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2026

Otherwise, the excess moisture will cause the blueberries to freeze into clumps. — Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026

Remove sticks, rocks, clumps, and other debris from the soil that can impede growth. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 June 2026

Now the players were clumps of broken petals on grass. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026

The land where the Lincoln Memorial sits used to be mudflats and wetlands, but now its Reflecting Pool became home to a historically large algae bloom filled with jagged clumps of blue industrial paint. — Theodore R. Johnson, Washington Post, 24 June 2026

Mature clumps can be propagated by division in spring. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2026

McCary also points out that shorter grass clippings are also less likely to form large or heavy clumps that might smother patches of lawn. — Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 21 June 2026

The model of shuffling that the new result depends on, like Bayer and Diaconis’ before it, still assumes that the cards riffle down one by one, rather than in clumps. — John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2026

Verb

Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026

Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. — Allison Deangelis, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026

However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families. — Brandi Jones, Health, 15 Jan. 2026

Cocoa powder often clumps in its container. — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025

Young stars form within collapsing clouds of gas and dust, which flatten into broad protoplanetary disks where material gradually clumps into larger bodies. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025

The alum then clumps the smaller, suspended fats together for easy removal. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025