Synonyms of lumpen

lumpen

adjective

ˈlu̇m-pən 

as in low

belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank

a kind of music that has traditionally appealed to the lumpen segment of the musical audience

Synonyms & Similar Words

• low
• proletarian
• unwashed
• plebeian
• lower-class
• low-life
• humble
• vulgar
• ignoble
• lowly
• prole
• inferior
• poor
• common
• bourgeois
• lowborn
• mean
• middle-class
• baseborn
• working-class
• plain
• simple
• déclassé
• downscale
• down-market

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• aristocratic
• high
• upper-class
• grand
• noble
• patrician
• great
• genteel
• gentle
• lofty
• upper-crust
• highborn
• prominent
• blue-blooded
• highbred
• eminent
• wellborn
• illustrious
• notable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lumpen

But the earlier dolls were crude, lumpen things, a cross between a beanbag and a sculpted potato. — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026

Yet Empire Falls translates into a lumpen, stodgy miniseries, despite a fine central performance from Harris as a divorced diner owner with deep roots in the town and a structure that allows the past to keep informing and enriching the present. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024

Then the judges booted her for wearing a lumpen quilt skirt accessorized with a blow-up-doll boyfriend. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2022

Tye Sheridan gives a somewhat lumpen performance as the author’s stand-in, an aspiring writer whose family background is funky, to say the least. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022

The films of Sean Baker celebrate lumpen characters and communities that subsist within the cracks of America’s neoliberal landscape. — Erik Morse, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021

Indeed, the miniatures — lumpen clay armchairs and occasional tables that Valle arranges and rearranges inside shoebox versions of their ultimate destinations — are closer to dollhouse furniture than to showpiece renderings. — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021

Some collectors are leaning further into technology by amassing digital artworks, while other sets of buyers are coping by prizing ceramics, with their fragile, lumpen tactility. — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 6 July 2021