LUMPED Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

lumped

verb

past tense of lump

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

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as in shuffled

to move heavily or clumsily while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant

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Recent Examples of lumped Whereas previous research lumped these traits together, the latest sought to break them into distinct pathways that guide individuals towards a career or vocation. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026 Mills pushed back on being lumped in with Swalwell and Gonzales. —

Emily Brooks, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2026 Some of that limelight has spilled onto purple sweet potatoes, with the two mistakenly lumped together as twin tubers. —

Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 6 Apr. 2026 The entire logic of the exhibition—with science and art, fresh names and familiar ones, lumped together—is here in miniature. —

Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026 When the alt-rock revolution began just a few years later, Journey were lumped together with REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Foreigner as fossils from a bygone corporate rock era, and that seemed unlikely to change. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2026 News that Anthropic is testing its powerful new artificial intelligence model throttled enterprise software stocks, including cybersecurity names that should never be lumped in with the rest. —

Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026 Despite the geographic distance, both populations had been lumped under the same species classification for years. —

Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026 Despite their diversity, though, their experiences tend to be lumped together, and often treated as the same as migrants’. —

Hosffman Ospino, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026

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The United States entered the war with the M3 Lee-Grant, which was hastily assembled when the war broke out and shipped abroad as part of the Lend-Lease program.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
Instead, Feldman has assembled a demanding lineup that will require the Playhouse to operate on a larger scale than ever before.

— Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026