Synonyms of lumped

lumped

verb

past tense of lump

1

as in assembled

to bring together in one body or place

when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assembled
• collected
• gathered
• grouped
• corralled
• accumulated
• amassed
• garnered
• packed
• combined
• joined
• concentrated
• congregated
• got together
• rounded up
• bulked (up)
• stacked
• constellated
• piled
• organized
• united
• picked up
• clustered
• arranged
• linked
• bunched
• huddled
• connected
• mustered
• banded
• merged
• balled
• compiled
• heaped
• rallied
• batched
• pooled
• raised
• herded
• swarmed
• flocked
• regrouped
• pressed
• collated
• systematized
• thronged
• brigaded
• archived
• hived
• scraped (up or together)
• regathered
• re-collected

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• scattered
• dispersed
• separated
• dissipated
• dissolved
• sent
• dismissed
• severed
• split (up)
• dispelled
• disbanded
• disintegrated
• broke up

2

as in shuffled

to move heavily or clumsily

while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffled
• stomped
• stumbled
• clumped
• barged
• weaved
• stamped
• hauled
• sloughed
• dragged
• lurched
• floundered
• trudged
• pounded
• stumped
• tramped
• shambled
• lumbered
• scuffled
• scuffed
• staggered
• flogged
• plodded
• galumphed
• slogged
• flopped
• tromped
• swayed
• reeled
• blundered
• waddled
• tottered
• doddered
• careened
• wobbled
• teetered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slid
• whisked
• glided
• hung
• floated
• drifted
• waltzed
• hovered
• coasted
• poised
• breezed
• wafted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lumped

The performances of those groups might have resembled one another in some superficial way, but the individual politics of each do matter and shouldn’t be lumped together on account of aesthetics. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026

From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026

If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 June 2026

We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 12 June 2026

The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls. — Megan De Mar, CBS News, 9 June 2026

And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent. — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 3 June 2026

Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification. — Megan Bruneau, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Polis even name-checked the program and Colorado’s best-in-the-nation childhood poverty rate in his final State of the State address — albeit, lumped in with a celebration of cuts to property taxes and income taxes. — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 13 May 2026