lumpen

lum·pen  (lmpn, lm-)

adj.

1. Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields.

2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.

3. Vulgar or common; plebeian: "Popular novelists and their mass readership remain a despised lumpen minority" (Leslie Fiedler).

n.

1. (used with a pl. verb) The lumpenproletariat.

2. (used with a sing. verb) A member of the lumpenproletariat.

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[From German Lumpenproletariat, the lowest section of the proletariat; see lumpenproletariat.]

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lumpen [ˈlʌmp^ən]

adj

Informal stupid or unthinking

[from German Lump vagabond, influenced in meaning by Lumpen rag, as in lumpenproletariat]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

lumpen - mentally sluggish                     lumpish, unthinking stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity

Translations

lumpen [ˈlʌmpən] (esp Brit) ADJ [person] → necio

lumpen

adj (= bulky) building etc → klobig; (inf: = stupid) → blöd (inf)