Synonyms of hump

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noun

ˈhəmp 

1

as in pouts

British a state of resentful silence or irritability

failing her A-levels has certainly given her the hump

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pouts
• dumps
• pet
• blues
• sulk
• irritability
• irritableness
• snit
• sulkiness
• sensitivity
• sullenness
• crossness
• fretfulness
• grouch
• disagreeableness
• mopes
• crankiness
• testiness
• perversity
• peevishness
• grouchiness
• surliness
• grumpiness
• waspishness
• petulance
• fantods
• irascibility
• biliousness
• pettishness
• dyspepsia
• orneriness
• perverseness
• cantankerousness
• choler
• crotchetiness
• querulousness
• irascibleness
• oversensitiveness
• fussiness
• huffiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cheerfulness
• gaiety
• perkiness
• lightheartedness
• sociability
• friendliness
• pleasantness
• sociality
• cordiality
• agreeableness
• graciousness
• high-spiritedness
• geniality
• affability
• amenity
• gladsomeness
• amicability
• amiability
• amiableness
• good-humoredness
• good-temperedness
• good-naturedness

2

as in mountain

an elevation of land higher than a hill

a cloud-capped hump straddles the border separating the two countries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mountain
• peak
• mount
• pinnacle
• alp
• mountain range
• horn
• knob
• sierra
• cordillera
• summit
• mountaintop
• range
• seamount
• inselberg
• aiguille

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• valley
• depression
• basin
• bowl
• hollow
• vale

3

as in hill

an area of high ground

the grassy hump at the center of the park is a popular sledding spot during the winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hill
• mound
• cliff
• mountain
• highland
• prominence
• elevation
• knoll
• upland
• eminence
• bluff
• ridge
• plateau
• crag
• height
• rise
• mount
• peak
• mesa
• altitude(s)
• foothill
• dome
• butte
• tableland
• steep
• precipice
• tor
• hillock
• knob
• hummock
• sierra
• table
• alp
• downs
• sugarloaf

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• valley
• lowland
• depression
• hollow
• bottom
• vale
• dale
• basin
• glen
• dell
• flat
• plain
• floodplain
• tidewater
• fen
• bottomland
• dingle

hump

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verb

1

as in to struggle

to devote serious and sustained effort

the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains

Synonyms & Similar Words

• struggle
• strive
• labor
• work
• endeavor
• try
• plow
• slave
• tug
• hustle
• sweat
• toil
• dig (away)
• plug
• strain
• bang away
• beaver (away)
• travail
• plod
• grub
• slog
• fag
• apply (oneself)
• peg (away)
• drudge
• sweat blood
• scratch
• buckle (down)
• moil
• attack
• drive
• exercise
• pitch in
• essay
• dig in
• exert
• hammer (away)
• eke out
• knuckle down
• grind (out)
• wade
• trudge
• overexert
• put out
• overwork
• scrabble

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• break
• ease (up)
• bum
• slacken
• let up
• lounge
• hang (around or out)
• rest
• chill
• idle
• goof (off)
• slack (off)
• relax
• shirk
• loaf
• hack (around)
• laze
• play
• unwind
• bask
• hang
• repose
• loll
• veg out
• goldbrick
• trifle
• fool around
• footle
• dillydally
• dabble
• doodle
• goof (around)
• mess around
• dally
• hang about
• monkey (around)
• putter (around)
• potter (around)
• fribble

2

as in to speed

to proceed or move quickly

the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speed
• race
• hurry
• trot
• drive
• rush
• scurry
• travel
• fly
• jump
• chase
• zip
• scoot
• blow
• buzz
• run
• dart
• scuttle
• step
• dash
• zoom
• tear
• rip
• hustle
• blast
• bowl
• ram
• shoot
• jog
• hurtle
• motor
• bolt
• hare
• jet
• course
• career
• breeze
• barrel
• rocket
• crack (on)
• belt
• pelt
• whirl
• nip
• hasten
• blaze
• hurl
• beat it
• highball
• rustle
• bustle
• gallop
• get a move on
• hie
• bundle
• careen
• whisk
• bomb
• step on it
• cannonball
• make tracks
• shake a leg
• streak
• hotfoot (it)
• scamper
• sprint
• beetle
• flit
• accelerate
• stampede
• step out
• scuffle
• whiz
• scud
• outrun
• overtake
• catch up
• arrow
• quicken
• outpace
• outstrip
• fast-forward
• beeline

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• creep
• crawl
• drag
• poke
• hang (around or out)
• lag
• linger
• poke
• dawdle
• loiter
• tarry
• stroll
• shuffle
• amble
• saunter
• slow (down or up)
• lumber
• plod
• decelerate
• dillydally
• dally

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hump

Noun

In anticipation of supersonic flight, the 747 was designed to shift into cargo duty sometime by the end of the ’70s; its cygnine hump allowed containers to be loaded through its nose, which opens like the mouth of a cartoon shark. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026

But the rounded hump and more advanced and tactile scroll wheel are worth the extra girth. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 10 June 2026

Verb

That territory has a bounty of middle-age men humping stools and occasionally noticing that death eventually comes for us all. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025

Compounding the cacophony is a Jonny Greenwood score that veers between manic percolation—imagine a xylophone humping a coffeepot—and grandly operatic surges of synth. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025