Synonyms of lumping

lumping

verb

present participle of lump

1

as in collecting

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

• collecting
• assembling
• gathering
• grouping
• corralling
• accumulating
• amassing
• combining
• garnering
• joining
• packing
• concentrating
• congregating
• uniting
• piling
• getting together
• bulking (up)
• constellating
• stacking
• organizing
• rounding up
• merging
• linking
• arranging
• balling
• raising
• picking up
• compiling
• huddling
• connecting
• bunching
• heaping
• clustering
• pooling
• batching
• rallying
• mustering
• herding
• swarming
• banding
• flocking
• collating
• systematizing
• regrouping
• pressing
• thronging
• hiving
• archiving
• brigading
• scraping (up or together)
• re-collecting
• regathering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dispersing
• separating
• scattering
• dissipating
• dissolving
• sending
• dismissing
• splitting (up)
• disintegrating
• dispelling
• severing
• breaking up
• disbanding

2

as in shuffling

to move heavily or clumsily

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffling
• stomping
• stumbling
• barging
• clumping
• hauling
• dragging
• sloughing
• weaving
• stamping
• lurching
• trudging
• floundering
• stumping
• pounding
• shambling
• scuffling
• tramping
• lumbering
• scuffing
• plodding
• staggering
• galumphing
• slogging
• flogging
• flopping
• swaying
• blundering
• tromping
• reeling
• waddling
• tottering
• careening
• wobbling
• teetering
• doddering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sliding
• gliding
• coasting
• whisking
• floating
• hanging
• drifting
• waltzing
• hovering
• breezing
• wafting
• poising

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lumping

Moros, too, took issue with lumping Hispanics together as a monolithic voting bloc, citing the need for nuance. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

Sony Pictures and filmmaker Sam Mendes have been mulling some innovative ideas for the release of their four Beatles biopics — including lumping together the films’ box office returns. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

One of the two candidates for president, one of the country’s foremost politicians, was expressly lumping together a sizable American ethnic minority with external enemies. — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

In 2021, the company started announcing growth from Azure and other cloud services, later lumping in some revenue from the GitHub and Nuance Communications acquisitions. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026

The results will help segment POTS patients into more granular cohorts based on the source of their symptoms, rather than lumping them all together as Simo says the medical industry often does today. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

There were some who diminished the novels, lumping them with the frothy stories of such bestselling contemporaries as Danielle Steel or Judith Krantz. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026

DeSantis has targeted Democrats for defeat by lumping parts of deep-blue Broward with red pockets in adjoining counties that have nothing in common with cities such as Plantation, Sunrise and Weston. — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026

The Mummy is set up with the grace of Boris Karloff lumping around the catacombs. — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026